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Table 3 Comparison with Similar Tools

From: Genes2FANs: connecting genes through functional association networks

Tool Name

Average Interactions

Background Knowledge

Unique Genes in database

Organisms

Genes2FANs

72.1 ± 51

PPI, literature co-occurrence, miRNAs, co-regulation, domains, drug signatures & targets, gene signatures, metabolites, and phenotypes

35,078

H.sapiens, M.musculus, R.norvegicus

PIPs

10.1 ± 25.2

Co-expression, orthology, domains, co-localization, and PTMs

5,338

H.sapiens

HEFalMp

681.3 ± 1123.2

Functionally mapped data from microarray experiments and sequence comparisons

24,433

H.sapiens

GeneMania

78.7 ± 39.2

Co-expression, physical & genetic interactions, domains, co-localization, pathways, and orthology

155,238

H.sapiens, A.thaliana, C.elegans, D.melanogaster, M.musculus, R.norvegicus, and S.cerevisiae

STRING 9.0

24.3 ± 14.4

Co-localization, fusion, co-occurrence, co-expression, literature co-occurrence, and orthology

5,214,234

1,133 Organisms

FunCoup

47.7 ± 21.9

PPI, orthology, co-expression, miRNA, co-localization, phylogenetics, co-regulation, genetic interactions, and domains

1,800,000

H.sapiens, M.musculus, R.norvegicus, D.melanogaster, A.thaliana, C.elegans, S.cerevisiae,and C.intestinalis

  1. Comparison of Genes2FANs with five similar tools; examining the average number of interactions returned for single gene queries, the types of background knowledge for each tool, the number of unique genes/proteins in each knowledgebase, and the supported organisms.