A Topology-Based Metric for Measuring Term Similarity in the Gene Ontology

Table 1

Names and characteristics of GO terms in Figure 3, including topological position characteristics 𝜇 and information content IC_𝑇 from our approach and IC_𝑍 and IC_𝑍𝑢 from the Zhang et al. approach.

GO Id	Level	𝜇	IC𝑇	IC𝑍	IC𝑍𝑢
GO:0042770	6	0.0456910e-27	6.525565e+01	10.11006	0.71747
GO:0042772	7	0.1142274e-28	6.664195e+01	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0030330	7	0.1142274e-28	6.664195e+01	11.20867	0.79544
GO:0000077	7	0.0171747e-34	8.235221e+01	10.92099	0.77502
GO:0008630	10	0.0335723e-86	2.014164e+02	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0006978	8	0.0434930e-57	1.343825e+02	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0006977	9	0.0419985e-79	1.850743e+02	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0042771	11	0.1278292e-116	2.691569e+02	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0031571	8	0.1103023e-50	1.173338e+02	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0031572	8	0.0735349e-50	1.177393e+02	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0031573	8	0.4293676e-36	8.373851e+01	12.30729	0.87340
GO:0031574	8	0.2206046e-50	1.166406e+02	12.30729	0.87340