Research Article

Global Alignment of Pairwise Protein Interaction Networks for Maximal Common Conserved Patterns

Table 3

A comparison of NetworkBLAST and HopeMap for yeast/fly.

MethodsSpecificity (%) in GO Specificity (%) in KOSpecificity (%) in INPARANOIDNumber of GO categories enrichedTotal conserved regionsUnique proteins in alignment graph

1. NetworkBLAST [15]
S. cerevisiae 94.87N/A10054117348
D. melanogaster 84.62N/A10043117256
2. HopeMap-bestPairs
S. cerevisiae 97.18N/A10051711314
D. melanogaster 76.06N/A10034711314
3. HopeMap—data from 1
S. cerevisiae 98.73N/A10054791645
D. melanogaster 78.48N/A10039791913
4. HopeMap-KO
S. cerevisiae 100.00100N/A2026747
D. melanogaster 92.31100N/A1926753