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Table 2 Summary of comparison on results between global alignment, local alignment without gap penalty and local alignment with affine gap penalty when using the smallest threshold such that there is no false positive.

From: Local structural alignment of RNA with affine gap model

Family

Number of members

Number of misses

  

Gotohscan [8]

%

 

Global [10]

%

 

Local

%

 

Local with affine gap

%

RF00014

96

2

2.1%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

RF00021

100

10

10%

 

5

5%

 

5

5%

 

2

2%

RF00022

100

59

59%

 

20

20%

 

19

19%

 

4

4%

RF00027

100

100

100%

 

15

15%

 

9

9%

 

2

2%

RF00032

100

59

59%

 

4

4%

 

1

1%

 

0

0%

RF00033

100

29

29%

 

27

27%

 

27

27%

 

25

25%

RF00034

100

71

71%

 

11

11%

 

22

22%

 

7

7%

RF00038

100

88

88%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

RF00039

100

100

100%

 

1

1%

 

1

1%

 

1

1%

RF00042

100

10

10%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

RF00043

21

3

14.3%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

RF00044

8

1

12.5%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

RF00046

76

9

11.8%

 

2

2.6%

 

1

1.3%

 

0

0%

RF00048

100

17

17%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

 

0

0%

RF00386

100

88

88%

 

63

63%

 

62

62%

 

6

6%

RF00643

100

98

98%

 

4

4%

 

13

13%

 

0

0%

RF00661

100

100

100%

 

87

87%

 

77

77%

 

30

30%

RF01051

100

100

100%

 

91

91%

 

85

85%

 

52

52%

  

average

53.9%

  

18.4%

  

17.9%

  

7.2%