A strategy for evaluating pathway analysis methods

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 The 10 gene expression datasets used to assess the performance of pathway analysis methods

Dataset ID^a	Study	Tissue Type	Sample Size		References
Dataset ID^a	Study	Tissue Type	Treatment	Control
GSE5281	Alzheimer’s disease	Brain tissue	35	38	[15]
GSE20295	Parkinson’s disease	Brain tissue	40	53	[16, 17]
GSE3365	Crohn’s disease	Blood	59	42	[18]
GSE48018	Influenza vaccination	Blood	110	111	[19]
GSE20194	Breast cancer	Cancer tissue	222	56	[20, 21]
GSE4115	Lung cancer	Bronchial epithelium	97	90	[22, 23]
GSE37069	Burn injury	Blood	29	36	[24]
GSE36809	Trauma injury	Blood	75	37	[25]
N/A	Drug treatment of MCF7 cells	Cell line	57	323	[26]
N/A	Drug treatment of PC3 cells	Cell line	32	184	[26]

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