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Table 4 Evaluation of over-representation analysis (ORA) outputs of bioinformatic tools employing Reactome and HumanCyc pathways. Real (from dataset ST000284) and enriched data were used. The number of total metabolites in the pathway, the number of hits, the ranking of the pathway among all the Reactome or HumanCyc pathways (according to their significance), the p-value and the adjusted p-value were calculated by the tools

From: Evaluation and comparison of bioinformatic tools for the enrichment analysis of metabolomics data

Tool

Data

Rank

Total metab.

Hits

P-value

Adjusted p-value

Reactome

 Metabolism of amino acids and derivates

  ConsensusPathDB

Real

3

272

18

8.46E-14

4.55E-12

Enriched

1

272

12

7.67E-15

5.75E-13

  IMPaLA

Real

3

272

18

8.46E-14

4.21E-11

Enriched

1

272

12

7.67E-15

1.02E-11

  PathVisio

Real

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

Enriched

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

  Reactome

Real

9

283

18

1.03E-04

3.81E-03

Enriched

1

283

12

8.18E-08

1.00E-05

HumanCyc

 tRNA charging

  ConsensusPathDB

Real

2

24

8

9.14E-12

1.92E-10

Enriched

2

24

5

4.40E-09

1.30E-07

  HumanCyc

Real

8

24

8

2.57E-05

0.002

Enriched

18

24

5

7.90E-05

4.25E-03

  IMPaLA

Real

2

24

8

9.14E-12

2.28E-09

Enriched

2

24

5

4.40E-09

3.51E-07

  MBRole (full database)

Real

4

64

8

8.38E-09

1.14E-06

Enriched

47

64

4

3.58E-07

7.97E-06

  MBRole (Homo sapiens)

Real

5

64

8

1.26E-04

2.44E-03

Enriched

11

64

5

1.58E-04

1.52E-03

  MetExplore

Real

1

NA

8

7.11E-07

7.75E-05

Enriched

6

NA

5

4.45E-05

3.60E-04

  1. NA means that information was not provided by the tool. Abbreviations: NA not available