Table 4.

Average gene prediction performance in simulated Sanger and 454 reads

Read length (bp)	Sequencing error rate	FragGeneScan			MetaGene
		Sensitivity	Specificity	Accuracy	Sensitivity	Specificity	Accuracy
100	0.00	86.97	80.17	83.57	54.60	76.45	65.53
	0.01	74.24	68.41	71.33	35.47	54.89	45.18
	0.03	57.75	56.63	57.19	19.04	34.57	26.81
200	0.00	91.38	86.84	89.11	88.29	82.10	85.20
	0.01	82.77	77.87	80.32	36.41	34.94	35.67
	0.03	69.19	67.86	68.53	13.17	15.78	14.48
400	0.00	91.31	86.05	88.68	90.34	84.69	87.51
	0.01	85.41	79.53	82.47	21.75	18.79	20.27
	0.03	72.88	69.87	71.38	5.89	7.01	6.45
700	0.00	91.38	85.49	88.44	91.04	86.30	88.67
	0.005	89.46	81.39	85.42	48.81	37.40	43.11
	0.01	86.72	78.24	82.48	31.18	23.30	27.24