Vertebrate gene finding from multiple-species alignments using a two-level strategy

Table 2 Error rates broken down by site type

	Acceptors	Donors	Starts	Stops
True sites, false reject percentages
Overall	4.45	4.08	17.61	15.86
Coding	4.34	3.88	17.61	15.86
Non-coding	7.48	10.00	NA	NA
Decoy sites, false accept percentages
Overall	4.45	4.08	17.35	15.84
Coding	2.34	1.08	23.19	2.92
Non-coding intra	2.54	2.21	12.17	16.58
Non-coding inter	8.00	8.31	18.05	16.07

The table shows the proportion (in the challenging test set) of various site types that received an incorrect classification. The classification threshold is adjusted to achieve roughly equal proportions of false positives and false negatives. NA: not applicable.

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