| Glimmer3 | 
  | Table 5:  Glimmer3 long-orfs and
    Glimmer2.13 long-orfs Compared to All
    Annotated Genes | 
  | This table compares the accuracy of the outputs of
    the Glimmer3 version
    of the long-orfs program with the
    output of Glimmer2.13 long-orfs.
    Program long-orfs is used to create a
    set of orfs that can be used to train the ICM model used
    by the main Glimmer gene-prediction program.
    The 30 microbial genomes were obtained from
    RefSeq at GenBank.
    The test set of genes was all annotated genes at least 90bp
    long, without frameshifts or in-frame stops. | 
  | Both versions of long-orfs were run in default mode,
    i.e., they both computed the orf length
    L that maximized the number of non-overlapping orfs
    of length L or greater.  The
    Glimmer3 version of long-orfs was run
    with a "-t 1.15" option to first
    filter the set of candidate orfs based on amino-acid composition
    before computing L.  For high-GC genomes in particular,
    this results in a much larger training set of orfs. | 
  | "Matches" are predictions that had the same
    reading frame and stop codon as an annotated gene in the test set.
    "Extra" are predictions that are not matches.
    Start-codon information is not included in this table
    because the long-orfs programs automatically choose
    the most upstream start codon. | 
  | The columns labelled "G3 vs. G2.13" are the
    Glimmer3 value minus the corresponding Glimmer2.13 value.
    For example, an entry of "+2" in the "Matches" column means
    that Glimmer3 had 2 more matches than Glimmer2.13 on the
    genome for that row. | 
  | 
  
    | Genome | Glimmer3 long-orfs | Glimmer2.13 long-orfs | G3 vs. G2.13 |  
    | Organism | Length | GC% | # Genes | Matches | Extra | Matches | Extra | Matches | Extra |  
    | Archaeoglobus fulgidus | 2.18Mb | 48.6 | 2398 | 1083 | 45.2% | 26 | 706 | 29.4% | 18 | +377 | +15.7% | +8 |  
    | Bacillus anthracis | 5.23Mb | 35.4 | 5308 | 3494 | 65.8% | 194 | 2934 | 55.3% | 160 | +560 | +10.6% | +34 |  
    | Bacillus subtilis | 4.21Mb | 43.5 | 4095 | 2647 | 64.6% | 21 | 2062 | 50.4% | 21 | +585 | +14.3% | 0 |  
    | Campylobacter jejuni | 1.78Mb | 30.3 | 1836 | 1347 | 73.4% | 58 | 743 | 40.5% | 43 | +604 | +32.9% | +15 |  
    | Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans | 2.40Mb | 42.0 | 2606 | 1587 | 60.9% | 42 | 1181 | 45.3% | 27 | +406 | +15.6% | +15 |  
    | Caulobacter crescentus | 4.02Mb | 67.2 | 3737 | 1578 | 42.2% | 53 | 388 | 10.4% | 87 | +1190 | +31.8% | -34 |  
    | Chlorobium tepidum | 2.15Mb | 56.5 | 2252 | 943 | 41.9% | 37 | 438 | 19.4% | 30 | +505 | +22.4% | +7 |  
    | Clostridium perfringens | 3.03Mb | 28.6 | 2660 | 2111 | 79.4% | 16 | 1885 | 70.9% | 16 | +226 | +8.5% | 0 |  
    | Colwellia psychrerythraea | 5.37Mb | 38.0 | 4902 | 3543 | 72.3% | 31 | 3143 | 64.1% | 21 | +400 | +8.2% | +10 |  
    | Dehalococcoides ethenogenes | 1.47Mb | 48.9 | 1579 | 807 | 51.1% | 33 | 595 | 37.7% | 20 | +212 | +13.4% | +13 |  
    | Escherichia coli | 4.64Mb | 50.8 | 4231 | 2754 | 65.1% | 39 | 1815 | 42.9% | 17 | +939 | +22.2% | +22 |  
    | Geobacter sulfurreducens | 3.81Mb | 60.9 | 3438 | 1432 | 41.7% | 59 | 553 | 16.1% | 61 | +879 | +25.6% | -2 |  
    | Haemophilus influenzae | 1.83Mb | 38.1 | 1649 | 1281 | 77.7% | 51 | 1088 | 66.0% | 41 | +193 | +11.7% | +10 |  
    | Helicobacter pylori | 1.67Mb | 38.9 | 1556 | 1141 | 73.3% | 20 | 831 | 53.4% | 10 | +310 | +19.9% | +10 |  
    | Listeria monocytogenes | 2.91Mb | 38.0 | 2819 | 2005 | 71.1% | 29 | 1607 | 57.0% | 21 | +398 | +14.1% | +8 |  
    | Methylococcus capsulatus | 3.30Mb | 63.6 | 2958 | 1053 | 35.6% | 60 | 302 | 10.2% | 70 | +751 | +25.4% | -10 |  
    | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 4.40Mb | 65.6 | 4189 | 1500 | 35.8% | 44 | 866 | 20.7% | 37 | +634 | +15.1% | +7 |  
    | Neisseria meningitidis | 2.27Mb | 51.5 | 2055 | 994 | 48.4% | 70 | 537 | 26.1% | 50 | +457 | +22.2% | +20 |  
    | Porphyromonas gingivalis | 2.34Mb | 48.3 | 1909 | 950 | 49.8% | 54 | 639 | 33.5% | 34 | +311 | +16.3% | +20 |  
    | Pseudomonas fluorescens | 7.07Mb | 63.3 | 6134 | 2873 | 46.8% | 71 | 579 | 9.4% | 129 | +2294 | +37.4% | -58 |  
    | Pseudomonas putida | 6.18Mb | 61.5 | 5349 | 2616 | 48.9% | 121 | 836 | 15.6% | 99 | +1780 | +33.3% | +22 |  
    | Ralstonia solanacearum | 3.72Mb | 67.0 | 3435 | 1133 | 33.0% | 42 | 157 | 4.6% | 131 | +976 | +28.4% | -89 |  
    | Staphylococcus epidermidis | 2.62Mb | 32.1 | 2487 | 1797 | 72.3% | 40 | 1480 | 59.5% | 27 | +317 | +12.7% | +13 |  
    | Streptococcus agalactiae | 2.16Mb | 35.6 | 2122 | 1589 | 74.9% | 44 | 1224 | 57.7% | 38 | +365 | +17.2% | +6 |  
    | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 2.16Mb | 39.7 | 2093 | 1289 | 61.6% | 67 | 1001 | 47.8% | 50 | +288 | +13.8% | +17 |  
    | Thermotoga maritima | 1.86Mb | 46.2 | 1854 | 797 | 43.0% | 20 | 448 | 24.2% | 14 | +349 | +18.8% | +6 |  
    | Treponema denticola | 2.84Mb | 37.9 | 2761 | 1839 | 66.6% | 18 | 1426 | 51.6% | 16 | +413 | +15.0% | +2 |  
    | Treponema pallidum | 1.14Mb | 52.8 | 1034 | 507 | 49.0% | 7 | 379 | 36.7% | 6 | +128 | +12.4% | +1 |  
    | Ureaplasma parvum | 0.75Mb | 25.5 | 614 | 400 | 65.1% | 0 | 338 | 55.0% | 9 | +62 | +10.1% | -9 |  
    | Wolbachia endosymbiont | 1.08Mb | 34.2 | 805 | 536 | 66.6% | 43 | 441 | 54.8% | 41 | +95 | +11.8% | +2 |  
    | Averages: |  | 57.4% |  |  | 38.9% |  | +566 | +18.6% | +2 |  |