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. 2022 Mar 14;88(7):e02479-21. doi: 10.1128/aem.02479-21

TABLE 2.

Confusion matrix for gene essentiality comparison

Predicted genes Exptl result for genesa
Essential Nonessential
Essential TP = 87 FP = 59
Nonessential FN = 92 TN = 294
a

TP, true positive; FP, false positive; FN, false negative; TN, true negative. A perfect correlation (MCC = +1) would require TP = 179, FP = 0, FN = 0, and TN = 353.