Table 2.

Statistics of testing benchmarks for the different PPIs and PTMs ranking methods

	PPI		PTM
PUBMED (BASELINE)	0.103	–	0.101	–
BIOMED	0.138	+34.1%	0.158	+57.2%
NEXTA5	0.269	+161.9%	0.280	+178.0%
QUERY REFINEMENT	0.299	+190.7%	0.363	+260.6%

Statistics of testing benchmarks for the different PPIs and PTMs ranking methods. Settings are chosen by trial and errors on the fusion on search scores; the precision between two runs could be affected positively or negatively by the parameters and the weights. Only the best results (at P0) from each engine are displayed here.