Table 1.

Pathways Analyzed and Percentage Showing Significant Clustering in Unmerged and Merged Data Sets

Organism # Pathways analyzed # Genes % Significant unmerged data % Significant merged data % In random data
H. sapiens 9897578%65%11%
C. elegans 8651674%58%11%
D. melanogaster 8548450%30%12%
A. thaliana 7931860%43%11%
S. cerevisiae 89682100% 98%10%

[i] The percent significant refers to pathways in which the score is more than 3* (3rd quartile − median) + median. The same analysis was carried out on randomized pathways where genes were picked randomly from all genes, using the merged data.