Table 7

Comparison of gene prediction sets with spliced EST alignments


GLEAN
Drosophila Ortholog
Ensembl
Evolutionary Conserved Core
Fgenesh
NCBI

Unique predicted donor/acceptor sites
54,818
21,254
101,054
49,587
80,889
61,107
Internal EST donor/acceptor sites
3,255
1,467
3,157
2,504
3,227
3,233
Perfect matches to EST donor/acceptor site
2,985
1,354
2,861
2,094
2,812
2,857
Perfect matches per internal EST donor/acceptor site
0.92
0.92
0.91
0.84
0.87
0.88
Perfect matches per predicted donor/acceptor site
0.059
0.069
0.031
0.042
0.035
0.047
Donor match
3,083
1,369
2,909
2,230
3,071
3,008
Acceptor match
3,063
1,392
2,932
2,219
3,030
2,940

'Predicted donor/acceptor sites' are splice sites within predicted gene models. 'Internal EST donor/acceptor sites' are EST splice sites located between start and termination codons of predicted genes. EST, expressed sequence tag.

Elsik et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R13   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-1-r13