Table 3. Comparison of DBPPred with the existing methods based on independent blind tests on the same dataset PDB186.

Method	Reference	Sensitivity	Specificity	Accuracy	MCC	AUC
DBPPred	This work	0.796	0.742	0.769	0.538	0.791
iDNA-Prot	[8]	0.677	0.667	0.672	0.344	N/A
DNA-Prot	[22]	0.699	0.538	0.618	0.240	N/A
DNAbinder	[23]	0.570	0.645	0.608	0.216	0.607
DNABIND	[24]	0.667	0.688	0.677	0.355	0.694
DBD-Threader	[19]	0.237	0.957	0.597	0.279	N/A

N/A means that the data are not available.