Table 3.

Performance comparison of DeepVF and existing toolkits for predicting VFs on the independent test

Methods	SN	SP	ACC	F-value	MCC
VirulentPred	0.641	0.573	0.607	0.620	0.214
MP3	0.536	0.783	0.66	0.612	0.33
PBVF	0.774	0.814	0.794	0.790	0.589
DeepVF	0.790	0.833	0.812	0.807	0.624
BLAST	0.682	0.818	0.750	0.732	0.505

Note: The best performance value for each metric across different toolkits is highlighted in bold.