Table 2.

Comparison of MITE Tracker, detectMITE and MITE Hunter with the rice genome as input

	MITE tracker	DetectMITE	MITE hunter
Processing time	2.5 hs	7 hs	40 hs
Total elements	17,651	36,029	-
Nested elements	20 (0.13%)	10,069 (28%)	-
Total families	2077	4801	343
Filtered Repbase matchesa	349 (61%)	327 (57%)	178 (31%)
False positivesb	81 (4%)	741 (16%)	25 (8%)

^aRepbase filtered by non-autonomous elements and less than 801 bp ^bElements from each program output that are TEs and not MITEs according to Repbase