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Table 3 Results on synthetic genomes: We constructed several synthetic chromsomes with randomly generated direct repeats mutated at a given percentage of nucleotides (0–30%) to assess performance at different levels of LTR conservation

From: LtrDetector: A tool-suite for detecting long terminal repeat retrotransposons de-novo

Tool

Total

TP

GT

Mutation 0%

   

 LTRharvest

90

90

90

 LtrDetector

90

90

90

Mutation 5%

   

 LTRharvest

92

91

92

 LtrDetector

90

90

92

Mutation 10%

   

 LTRharvest

78

74

91

 LtrDetector

88

88

91

Mutation 15%

   

 LTRharvest

32

29

92

 LtrDetector

74

74

92

Mutation 20%

   

 LTRharvest

10

8

93

 LtrDetector

40

40

93

Mutation 30%

   

 LTRharvest

1

0

90

 LtrDetector

2

2

90

  1. Total is the number of proposed LTR-RTs, TP is number of true positives, GT is number of elements in the synthetic ground truth
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BMC Genomics

ISSN: 1471-2164

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