Table 2.

Accuracy of TWINSCAN predictions with the commonly used geometric intron length distributions versus the smoothed empirical length distribution




Gene sensitivity

Overlap gene specificity

Exon sensitivity

Overlap exon specificity
Geometric intron length 55.3% 53.3% 85.3% 77.6%
Empirical intron length
60.0%
58.1%
86.7%
79.5%

[i] Both results use briggsae alignments and allow GC splice donors.