Table 2

Breakdown of exon-level accuracy for human. The first two rows show sensitivity and specificity for all exons when a prediction is counted as correct if it overlaps an exon in the evaluation set by at least 1 bp. The remaining rows show sensitivity and specificity for the exact prediction of the four different exon types: initial, internal, and terminal exons in multi-exon genes, and exons that contain a gene's full coding region.


N-SCAN (mouse)
CONTRAST (mouse)
CONTRAST (11 informants)

Exon overlap Sn
91.2
95.5
96.9
Exon overlap Sp
69.6
73.9
75.5
Initial exon Sn
60.9
72.9
76.9
Initial exon Sp
48.8
54.1
56.9
Internal exon Sn
89.4
94.6
96.2
Internal exon Sp
68.7
76.1
77.4
Terminal exon Sn
70.4
80.6
83.5
Terminal exon Sp
53.8
59.8
61.9
Single exon Sn
45.9
65.2
67.5
Single exon Sp
27.7
18.8
24.8

Gross et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R269   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-r269