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Table 4 Mean and median percent error for all methods on the benchmark without query RNA flanks (3,429 datasets).

From: Searching for evolutionary distant RNA homologs within genomic sequences using partition function posterior probabilities

Mean and median error

Probalign

SSEARCH

BLAST

ClustalW

HMMER

Complete benchmark

30.8 | 30.4

31.4 | 22.1

32.0 | 20.9

37.9 | 38.5

44.9 | 44.7

Datasets with pairwise sequence identity at most 30% (14)

62.4 | 59.5

70.8 | 94.5

78.4 | 100.0

74.5 | 97.5

96.7 | 100.0

  1. Probalign has lowest mean and median error on low sequence identity datasets.