Table 4.
Performance comparison of promoter prediction methods on the human genome
| Methods | Specificity | Sensitivity | F-measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| FirstEF | 0.415 | 0.448 | 0.431 |
| DragonGSF | 0.686 | 0.357 | 0.470 |
| McPromoter | 0.623 | 0.204 | 0.307 |
| EP3 | 0.565 | 0.413 | 0.477 |
| Profisi | 0.604 | 0.392 | 0.475 |
| ARTS | 0.672 | 0.381 | 0.486 |
| Eponine | 0.671 | 0.367 | 0.475 |
| ProSom | 0.573 | 0.414 | 0.481 |
| PNNP | 0.593 | 0.433 | 0.501 |
| FSPP(ReliefF-300) | 0.657 | 0.528 | 0.585 |
| FSPP(Wrapper-SVM) | 0.662 | 0.536 | 0.592 |
These methods include nine existing promoter prediction methods and our prediction methods based on the filter and wrapper feature selection.