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. 2017 Nov 21;7:15959. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14896-7

Table 4.

The averaged performances of GATK, GATKcan (trained by ten & 44 EC tumors), VarScan 2 and MuTect in detecting mutations from ~2,102 (~1,741) somatic variants of 231 (197) randomly sampled endometrial tumors in ten repeats, checked against the TCGA reported mutations.

Test set GATK GATKcan Mutect VarScan 2
231 samples TPR§ (s.e.) 98.8 (0.0) 98.6 (0.6) -----*----- 94.3 (0.1) 99.6 (0.0)
cFPR (s.e.) 81.0 (0.4) 5.7 (0.4) -----*----- 37.9 (0.5) 60.5 (0.7)
precision (s.e.) 54.7 (0.3) 94.4 (0.3) -----*----- 71.1 (0.2) 61.9 (0.2)
MCC (s.e.) 29.4 (0.4) 92.9 (0.5) -----*----- 59.5 (0.4) 48.9 (0.5)
197 samples TPR§ (s.e.) 98.8 (0.3) 98.5 (1.0) -----*----- 94.1 (1.0) 99.6 (0.1)
cFPR (s.e.) 80.2 (2.3) 6.1 (0.9) -----*----- 36.8 (5.2) 59.6 (4.5)
precision (s.e.) 55.0 (0.7) 94.2 (0.6) -----*----- 71.9 (2.1) 62.4 (0.9)
MCC (s.e.) 30.3 (1.5) 92.5 (0.3) -----*----- 60.3 (3.5) 49.5 (3.1)

Adjusted performance measures. §The unit of all performance measures and their s.e.’s are %. *The P value of the two sample t-test between GATKcan and MuTect < 10−8.