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Table 1 Evaluation of the tool by simulated data sets

From: MotifCombinator: a web-based tool to search for combinations of cis-regulatory motifs

Expression type

Noise (%)

Log10(P)

C.R.

Log10(P)

C.R.

  

Average

Best

Linear

0

-2.9

0.83

-4.8

0.89

 

20

-2.9

0.80

-4.9

0.85

 

40

-2.7

0.73

-4.5

0.78

 

60

-2.7

0.63

-4.3

0.68

 

80

-2.2

0.52

-3.7

0.55

Quadratic

0

-3.9

0.82

-5.8

0.88

 

20

-3.7

0.78

-5.8

0.85

 

40

-3.6

0.73

-5.5

0.77

 

60

-3.0

0.63

-4.7

0.69

 

80

-2.9

0.57

-4.6

0.58

  1. We tested if the tool can correctly recover planted motif combinations, using simulated data sets. We evaluated the results based on P values of the hypergeometric test (see the text). "Linear" and "Quadratic" indicate types of simulated expression levels given by eq. 2 and eq. 3, respectively, and "Noise" indicates the degree of noises added into the simulated expression levels. "Average" and "Best" correspond to the cases of the P value (logarithmically) averaged across the top 10 motif combinations and the best P value among the top 10, respectively (see the text). "Log10(P)" indicates log10 of the P values. "C.R." indicates the contribution rate, which is the proportion of the variance of input expression levels explained by the scores of a motif combination. "Log10(P)" and "C.R." values in each row are averaged across ten data sets.