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. 2016 Sep 30;33(3):334–340. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw629

Table 2.

Comparison of available promoter prediction programs tested on E. coli’s experimentally validated σ70 promoter sequences and a negative dataset of 251 bp sequences.

Promoter prediction tool Genes with ≥1 TSSpr Total number of TSSpr TP1 FP FN Sn, % P1,% F1,%
bTTSSfinder 197 355 143 212 57 71.5 40.3 51.5
BPROM 200 569 130 439 70 65.0 22.9 33.8
NNPP2 175 460 109 351 91 54.5 23.7 33.0
PromPredict 74 149 0 149 200 0.0 0.0 0.0
1

Prediction is true, if distance between annotated and predicted TSSs is 50 bp or less.TSSpr: predicted TSS.