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Table 2 Comparison of MITE Tracker, detectMITE and MITE Hunter with the rice genome as input

From: MITE Tracker: an accurate approach to identify miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in large genomes

 

MITE tracker

DetectMITE

MITE hunter

Processing time

2.5 hs

7 hs

40 hs

Total elements

17,651

36,029

-

Nested elements

20 (0.13%)

10,069 (28%)

-

Total families

2077

4801

343

Filtered Repbase matchesa

349 (61%)

327 (57%)

178 (31%)

False positivesb

81 (4%)

741 (16%)

25 (8%)

  1. aRepbase filtered by non-autonomous elements and less than 801 bp bElements from each program output that are TEs and not MITEs according to Repbase