Table 6.

Percentage of the time that the true ancestor is a maximal signature, under normally distributed inversion lengths on genomes of size n = 30. Method 2 uses the greedy Bourque-like approach while method 3 uses the approach based on maximum sets of noninterfering inversions.

		% of |P|
# of ops as % of n	Method	0	≤ 5%	≤ 10%	≤ 15%	≤ 20%	≤ 50%
5	2	95	95	95	95	99	100
	3	94	94	94	94	98	100
8	2	90	90	90	97	99	100
	3	86	86	86	92	94	100
10	2	85	85	94	97	100	100
	3	77	77	85	87	98	100
15	2	68	68	92	98	100	100
	3	54	54	73	90	98	100
20	2	43	63	89	98	100	100
	3	28	41	74	90	98	100