Table 3.

Relative assessment of amount and details of information, and agreement with MCD.

Database	Information availability and volume of supporting data		Agreement with reports on individual gene studies
	Score (maximum = 33)	% score	Score (maximum = 11)	% agreement
HPRD*	13	39	8	73
MGEX-Tdb	27	82	5	45
UniGene	14	42	3	27
BioGPS	11	33	5	45

Notes:

See additional file 8 for detailed methods;

*HPRD is specific for humans. Hence the score depicted for this database is not an average across the species.