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Table 3 Number of genes reported to be present in either or both pools when normal bone libraries (in one pool) are compared with cancerous bone libraries (in the other pool) by xProfiler's gene lists and summary table of gene results, cDNA DGED and using our algorithm.

From: Errors in CGAP xProfiler and cDNA DGED: the importance of library parsing and gene selection algorithms

Tool and output method used

Number of genes reported

Reporting the presence or absence of each gene in a Boolean manner

cDNA xProfiler results table

10,108

Our algorithm

9,996

Reporting the sequence odds ratio for each gene

cDNA DGED

9,996

Our algorithm

9,996