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. 2010 Jun 2;26(14):1766–1771. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq283

Table 2.

Examples of false positives and false negatives

Term 1 Term 2 Homolonto result Frequency of shared wordsa
XAO:0000399 tendon fibroblast ZFA:0009296 perijunctional fibroblast False positiveb 3
EMAPA:16370 cardiovascular system (part_of extraembryonic component) EHDAA:394 cardiovascular system (part_of organ system part_of embryo) False positiveb 3
EMAPA:16754 central nervous system (part_of tail) EHDAA:828 central nervous system (part_of nervous system) False positiveb 3
XAO:0000385 pronephric sinus (part_of pronephric kidney) ZFA:0001557 pronephric glomerulus (part_of pronephros) False positiveb 36
XAO:0000119 lung (part_of respiratory system) ZFA:0000354 gill (part_of respiratory system) False positiveb
XAO:0000355 fourth aortic arch ZFA:0005008 aortic arch 4 False negativec 43
EMAPA:17340 right ventricle (part_of ventricle) EHDAA:1916 right part (part_of ventricle) False negativec 67
EMAPA:17853 naso-lacrimal duct (part_of nose) EHDAA:7837 nasolacrimal duct (part_of nasolacrimal groove) False negativec 75
XAO:0000050 mesoderm (part_of embryo) ZFA:0000041 mesoderm (part_of primary germ layer) False negatived 183

aSum of frequencies in the two ontologies being compared.

bProposition with a high score between non-homologous structures.

cProposition with a low score between homologous structures.

dNo proposition reported between homologous structures.