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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Semant Web Inf Syst. 2007;3(2):1–26. doi: 10.4018/jswis.2007040101

Table 7. Three direct vs. indirect alignments.

MA - NCI MA - FMA NCI - FMA
Direct alignment (DIR) 715 matches (91.3% pos.evidence) 1,353 matches (94.8% pos. evidence) 2,173 matches (90.1% pos. evidence)
Indirect alignment(IND) FMA as reference NCI as reference MA as reference
703 matches (92% pos. evidence) 771 matches (88.1% pos. evidence) 741 matches (87.6% pos. evidence)
Shared by DIR & IND. 654 matches 708 matches 710 matches
Specific to DIR 61 matches 645 matches 1,463 matches
Specific to IND. 49 matches 63 matches 31 matches
Shared / DIR. 91.5% 52.3% 32.7%