Table 1.
Search benchmark: comparison of the total number of hits found when searching for 15 popular search terms (selected from the list of top 100 terms queried in GeneCards during 2008 and 2009) in GeneCards, Entrez Gene, Ensembl and Harvester
| Search term | Total number of hits (genes) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeneCards V3 | Entrez Genea | Ensembl | Harvester | |
| Asthma | 861 | 426 | 35 | 42 |
| Estrogen | 1912 | 572 | 152 | 383 |
| Hippocampusb | 726 | 153 | 30 | 1197 |
| Olfactoryb | 1449 | 2755 | 1339 | 828 |
| Retinoblastoma | 643 | 209 | 38 | 29 |
| Tongue | 348 | 75 | 12 | 80 |
| VIMENTIN | 243 | 74 | 4 | 48 |
| BRCA1 | 651 | 312 | 23 | 143 |
| CDKN1A | 79 | 104 | 11 | 75 |
| CFTR | 264 | 145 | 30 | 54 |
| EGFR | 870 | 495 | 7 | 43 |
| GAPDH | 78 | 164 | 55 | 34 |
| MTHFR | 116 | 56 | 2 | 11 |
| TP53 | 884 | 419 | 26 | 401 |
| VEGF | 1012 | 512 | 9 | 61 |
aIncludes entries discontinued by NCBI—see examples in Figure 13.
bSearch terms which are not from the list of top 100 searches.