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Table 4 Benchmark results on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)

From: SEMgsa: topology-based pathway enrichment analysis with structural equation models

Metrics

Method

Disease

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)*

Sensitivity

SEMgsa()

\(< {\textbf {0.001}}\)

\(< {\textbf {0.001}}\)

DEGraph

0.771

0.653

NetGSA

0.011

0.563

ORA

0.709

0.375

PathwayExpress

0.444

0.981

TopologyGSA

\(< 0.001\)

0.740

Prioritization

SEMgsa()

10

39

DEGraph

90

39

NetGSA

63

44

ORA

83

56

PathwayExpress

32

100

TopologyGSA

13

58

  1. *Since the term Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (an alias for FTD; KEGG ID: H00078) is associated to 6 KEGG pathways, sensitivity and prioritisation metrics have been aggregated by taking the median. Results for SEMgsa() have been highlighted in bold