Annotating animal mitochondrial tRNAs: an experimental evaluation of four methods
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We present the results of an experimental analysis of four methods for identifying animal mitochondrial tRNAs tested on a dataset consisting of 6,600 tRNAs extracted from the entire set of complete animal mitochondrial genomes in GenBank. Methods were evaluated based on false negatives (missing actual tRNAs) and false positives (falsely identifying tRNAs). An exploration of training covariation models to identify animal mitochondrial tRNAs is also
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