Table 3 Comparison between the results of SAlign (SA) and existing techniques on network pairs which have low percentage of proteins with experimentally resolved structures on the basis of average AFS and average percentage of aligned nodes w.r.t MF and BP

Mouse fly

AFS\(_{MF}\)

0.50

0.49

0.42

0.36

0.33

0.32

0.37

0.55*

AFS\(_{BP}\)

0.37

0.36

0.31

0.28

0.24

0.23

0.28

0.40*

Nodes\(_{MF}\)

73

72

67

66

58

57

63

61

Nodes\(_{BP}\)

80

80

76

74

58

60

62

56

Mouse worm

AFS\(_{MF}\)

0.56*

0.54

0.49

0.41

0.30

0.29

0.31

0.52

AFS\(_{BP}\)

0.41*

0.40

0.37

0.30

0.25

0.24

0.25

0.39

Nodes\(_{MF}\)

76

74

73

71

62

62

64

64

Nodes\(_{BP}\)

70

68

67

66

70

72

76

73

Avg.

AFS\(_{MF}\)

0.53

0.52

0.46

0.39

0.32

0.31

0.34

0.53

AFS\(_{BP}\)

0.39

0.38

0.34

0.29

0.25

0.24

0.27

0.40

Nodes\(_{MF}\)

74

73

70

69

60

59

64

63

Nodes\(_{BP}\)

75

74

72

70

66

66

69

65