Table 1.
The performance of ten search engines on the Simulated-BS3 dataseta
| Search engine | Search strategy | Sensitivity (%) | Precision (%) | Run time (Min) | Selected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xQuestb | Exhaustive | – | – | – | No |
| Xilmassc | Exhaustive | – | – | – | No |
| Xolik | Exhaustive | 40.7 | 93.7 | 0.7 | No |
| StavroX | Exhaustive | 50.4 | 78.6 | 363.9 | No |
| Xi | Open | 62.5 | 59.1 | 9.3 | No |
| MetaMorpheusXL | Open | 71.0 | 97.7 | 0.3 | No |
| Protein Prospector | Open | 78.6 | 97.2 | 16.9 | No |
| Kojak | Open | 85.3 | 97.8 | 1.7 | Yes |
| pLink 1 | Open | 99.8 | 99.8 | 12.3 | Yes |
| pLink 2 | Open | 99.9 | 100.0 | 0.5 | Yes |
a For sensitivity, precision, and run time, the average values obtained using three randomly generated Simulated-BS3 datasets were shown
b xQuest threw an exception “Illegal division by zero at /home/xqxp/xquest/V2_1_1/xquest/bin/compare_peaks3.pl line 2246” and did not report any results
c Xilmass threw an exception “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded” and did not report any results