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Table 4 Sensitivity comparison of computed spaced seeds for BFAST

From: Efficient computation of spaced seeds

w

N

p

1 seed (contig.)

1 seed (spaced)

BFAST (16 seeds)

Mandala

Iedera

SpEED

Fast HC

22

50

0.85

14.4649

26.8064

58.6907

--

60.1535

60.8127

60.9329

22

50

0.90

36.6940

57.9846

87.3359

--

87.9894

88.5969

88.7120

22

50

0.95

74.1153

90.8265

99.2249

--

99.2196

99.3659

99.3959

  1. Sensitivity comparison with Mandala, Iedera, and SpEED (results from [18]). Seeds were computed with the same parameters as those of BFAST. Fast HC (sensitivity values in bold) is the best in all cases. The sensitivity of the original seeds is significantly improved.