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Table 5 Mean levels of consistency metrics by source (rank out of the 8 sources in parentheses)

From: Evaluating the consistency of gene sets used in the analysis of bacterial gene expression data

  

s mean,diff a

s mean,exp a

corr mean b

PC1b

Gene Ontology

BP

0.10 (7)

1.23 (5)

0.43 (6)

0.37 (7)

CC

0.10 (5)

1.26 (7)

0.50 (3)

0.42 (4)

MF

0.10 (6)

1.24 (6)

0.42 (8)

0.40 (6)

KEGG

 

0.10 (8)

1.28 (8)

0.43 (7)

0.31 (8)

MO: Predicted Operons

0.06 (1)

0.92 (1)

0.57 (1)

0.56 (1)

SEED

SS

0.09 (4)

1.19 (4)

0.47 (5)

0.41 (5)

Scenarios

0.08 (3)

1.06 (3)

0.49 (4)

0.49 (2)

Paths

0.08 (2)

1.05 (2)

0.50 (2)

0.48 (3)

  1. a. Smaller values mean more consistent sets, because there is less variability within the set.
  2. b. Larger values mean more consistent sets, because the sets contain genes with higher correlations.