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. 2021 Feb 4;22(2):845–854. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbab004

Table 3.

Performance test of prokaryotic genome annotation tools based on four species

Species Software Genes CDS CDS with function CDS without function rRNA tRNA Genes with same start and end position (%)a Genes with same start position (%) Similarity scoreb
Clostridioides difficile Ref_annotationc 3904 3850 3353 (87.09%) 497 (12.91%) 32 88 / / /
PROKKA 3913 3824 2124 (55.54%) 1700 (44.46%) / 89 3547 (90.86%) 3714 (95.13%) 95.02%
RASTtk 4031 3912 2930 (74.90%) 982 (25.10%) 32 87 3557 (91.11%) 3727 (95.47%) 93.94%
RAST 4261 3904 2929 (75.03%) 975 (24.97%) 96 261 3721 (95.31%) 3900 (99.90%) 95.53%
GeneSAS_genemarkS 4087 3966 / / 32 89 3615 (92.60%) 3755 (96.20%) 93.98%
PGAP 3886 3829 3410 (89.06%) 419 (10.94%) 32 88 3763 (96.39%) 3828 (98.05%) 98.28%
Klebsiella pneumoniae Ref_annotation 5868 5779 4085 (70.69%) 1694 (29.31%) 25 62 / / /
PROKKA 5540 5451 3889 (71.34%) 1562 (28.66%) / 88 4760 (81.12%) 5100 (86.91%) 89.41%
RASTtk 5844 5731 4826 (84.21%) 905 (15.79%) 25 88 5092 (86.78%) 5394 (91.92%) 92.11%
RAST 6070 5731 4857 (84.75%) 874 (15.25%) 75 264 5216 (88.89%) 5517 (94.02%) 92.43%
GeneSAS_genemarkS 5544 5544 / / / / 4581 (78.07%) 5018 (85.51%) 87.94%
PGAP 5467 5527 5014 (90.72%) 513 (9.28%) 25 88 4858 (82.79%) 5097 (86.86%) 89.93%
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Ref_annotation 2044 1973 1600 (81.09%) 373 (18.91%) 11 54 / / /
PROKKA 2201 2145 1235 (57.58%) 910 (42.42%) / 55 1713 (83.81%) 1836 (89.82%) 86.50%
RASTtk 2642 2575 1765 (68.54%) 810 (31.46%) 12 55 1731 (84.69%) 1881 (92.03%) 80.28%
RAST 2776 2575 1783 (69.24%) 792 (30.76%) 36 165 1839 (89.98%) 1999 (97.80%) 82.95%
GeneSAS_genemarkS 2357 2357 / / / / 1421 (69.52%) 1683 (82.34%) 76.48%
PGAP 2030 1960 1629 (83.11%) 331 (16.89%) 12 55 1930 (94.42%) 1967 (96.23%) 96.56%
Staphylococcus aureus Ref_annotation 2842 2767 1238 (44.74%) 1529 (55.26%) 16 59 / / /
PROKKA 2693 2630 1720 (65.40%) 910 (34.60%) / 62 2315 (81.46%) 2476 (87.12%) 89.47%
RASTtk 2763 2687 2157 (80.28%) 530 (19.72%) 16 60 2353 (82.79%) 2523 (88.78%) 90.03%
RAST 2915 2687 2157 (80.28%) 530 (19.72%) 48 180 2471 (86.95%) 2647 (93.14%) 91.96%
GeneSAS_genemarkS 2683 2683 / / / / 2320 (81.63%) 2458 (86.49%) 88.98%
PGAP 2782 2704 2327 (86.06%) 377 (13.94%) 16 59 2580 (90.78%) 2676 (94.16%) 95.16%

aPercentage is equal to (the number of detected identical genes/ref_annotation genes)*100.

bSimilarityScore = ((Genes with same start position)/(Totalx + Totalz))*2*100. Totalx and Totalz are the total number of genes in the software annotation and reference annotation. The function is from BEACON (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539851/).

cref_annotation means the reference annotation. It is from NCBI RefSeq.