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. 2015 Mar 17;3:e836. doi: 10.7717/peerj.836

Table 3. Comparison of algorithm performance for different CNV sizes.

Results shown for short (500–10,000 bases) / long (>10,000 bases) CNVs. True positives indicate 10% reciprocal overlap. CNV predictions not meeting overlap criteria were classified as “Other.”

Deletion Duplication
Algorithm Sensitivity True positives Other Sensitivity True Positives Other
NA12878 (low coverage)
CNVnator 0.11 / 0.72 47 / 55 202 / 346 0.03 / 0.27 3 / 25 20 / 186
RDXplorer 0.03 / 0.34 11 / 26 62 / 156 0.03 / 0.04 3 / 4 217 / 132
GROM-RD 0.37 / 0.84 153 / 64 740 / 123 0.05 / 0.27 6 / 25 86 / 227
NA12878 (high coverage)
CNVnator 0.78 / 0.81 328 / 63 27132 / 465 0.09 / 0.23 12 / 22 618 / 357
RDXplorer 0.16 / 0.62 69 / 48 1418 / 232 0.05 / 0.15 7 / 15 595 / 199
GROM-RD 0.68 / 0.83 287 / 65 5413 / 156 0.15 / 0.26 20 / 25 1216 / 252