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. 2013 Jun 27;8:16. doi: 10.1186/1748-7188-8-16

Table 5.

Realistic synthetic data: classification-based results

Conservation
Known width (w)
MCOIN (w ± 4)
E-values (w ± 4)
(mean bits/col) sSn sPPV AUC sSn sPPV AUC sSn sPPV AUC
2.00
0.84
0.25
0.99
0.93
0.42
1.00
0.91
0.79
0.99
1.49
0.26
0.07
0.98
0.28
0.15
0.99
0.21
0.45
0.98
1.08
0.02
0.01
0.96
0.01
0.01
0.96
0.01
0.23
0.96
0.76
0.00
0.00
0.94
0.00
0.00
0.93
0.00
0.12
0.94
0.51 0.00 0.00 0.93 0.00 0.00 0.93 0.00 0.09 0.93

Mean site-level sensitivity (sSn), positive predictive value (sPPV) and area under the ROC curve (AUC) for five collections of realistic synthetic data at varying levels of motif conservation. In these tests, the motif discovery algorithm was allowed to run as it would normally.