Table 5.

Summary of the achieved results for the synthetic scenarios investigated

Algorithm / Good at:	Noise	Number of biclusters	Symmetric overlap	Asymmetric overlap	Size of biclusters
BBC
BiBit		✓	✓	✓	✓
Bimax		✓	✓	✓	✓
CCA
COALESCE	✓	✓			✓
CPB		✓	✓
DeBi
FABIA	✓	✓
ISA	✓	✓
LAS	✓	✓			✓
MSSRCC	✓	–	–	–	–
OPSM
Plaid	✓				✓
QUBIC					✓
SAMBA	✓	✓		✓	✓
Spectral	✓	–	–	–	–
xMOTIFs		✓

A checkmark indicates that the algorithm in the row achieved good results at all levels of the scenario in the column. A “–” indicates that the algorithm in the row was not tested for the scenario in the column