Table 2.

Comparison of the accuracy of splice site prediction between different gene prediction programs using manual annotation as a standard



Number of identical splice sites

Sensitivity
Specificity
EAnnot 86.2% (17874/20724) 85.5% (17874/20901)
Ensembl 84.4% (17489/20724) 82.3% (17489/21258)
Fgenesh 66.1% (13698/20724) 35.6% (13698/38484)
Genscan
62.1% (12870/20724)
30.3% (12870/42538)

[i] (Sensitivity) Number predicted correctly over total number annotated manually.

(Specificity) Number predicted correctly over total number predicted.