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. 2020 Sep 24;123(12):1749–1756. doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-01087-x

Table 1.

The cutoff criteria for evaluation of true positive and false-positive rates.

Cutoff (number of sgRNAs with 4-fold reduction)
Total >1 >2 >3 >4
Essential genes 216 138 67 25 5
Non-essential genes 771 105 15 2 0
False-negative rate: 36.1% 69.0% 88.4% 97.7%
False-positive rate: 13.6% 1.9% 0.3% 0.0%