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Table 1 Comparison of evaluation criteria used to evaluate models in candidate enhancer activity conservation prediction papers

From: Inferring mammalian tissue-specific regulatory conservation by predicting tissue-specific differences in open chromatin

Evaluation Criterium

Chen et al. 2018 [57]

Huh et al. 2018 [58]

Kelley 2020 [59]

Minnoye et al. 2020 [60]

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Evaluation on Genomic Regions not Used in Training

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Evaluation on Species not Used in Training

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Comparison of Model Trained on One Species to Model Trained on Multiple Species

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Evaluation of Lineage-Specific Enhancer Accuracy

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Evaluation of Tissue-Specific Enhancer Accuracy

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Evaluation of Phylogeny-Matching Correlations

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Comparison to Conservation Scores

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Identification of Biologically Relevant Enhancers with Correctly Predicted Lineage-Specificity

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