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Table 3 Comparative testing results of POLYAR, polya_svm and polyadq rograms in [-300:+300] regions around the mapped PAS-strong, PAS-weak and PAS-less CS/poly (A) sites

From: POLYAR, a new computer program for prediction of poly(A) sites in human sequences

Data Set

Programs

TP

FN

FP

Predicted CSs, total

Sn,% *

Sp,% *

PAS-strong

(5225 sequences)

POLYAR

4221

1004

2135

6356

80.8

66.4

 

polya_svm

3431

1794

3206

6637

65.7

51.7

 

polyadq

2804

2421

1177

3981

53.7

70.4

PAS-weak

(2475 sequences)

POLYAR

624

1851

1571

2195

25.2

28.4

 

polya_svm

645

1830

1417

2185

26.1

29.5

PAS-less

(561 sequences)

POLYAR

76

485

544

518

13.5

14.7

 

polya_svm

42

519

223

292

7.5

14.4

  1. * Sensitivity and specificity was calculated by formulas [12] and [14], respectively.