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Table 3 Metrics for estimating the quality of neutralising epitope prediction.

From: Concept and application of a computational vaccinology workflow

protein

baseline

TP

FP

TN

FN

sensitivity

specificity

accuracy

precision

MCC

gp110

5.72%

26

141

667

23

0.53

0.83

0.81

0.16

0.21

gp350 (no repeat)

8.05%

47

224

615

26

0.64

0.73

0.73

0.17

0.22

gp350 (single repeat)

8.05%

59

224

615

14

0.81

0.73

0.74

0.21

0.32

gp350

12.35%

95

224

576

17

0.85

0.72

0.74

0.3

0.39

  1. Table 3provides TP (True Positives), FP (False Positives), TN (True Negatives), FN (False Negatives), MCC (Matthews correlation coefficient) for selected sequences. The baseline value corresponds to the percentage of residues belonging to neutralizing epitopes. For gp350 tree entries have been added, depending whether a single copy of ‘VTTPTPNATSPT’ is interpreted as False Negatives (FN), namely i) no repeats are considered as predicted, ii) a single repeat is accepted as predicted, or iii) all four copies are accepted as predicted (default).