Table 1.

Feature comparison of GOMCL and other tools for clustering of GO terms

	GOMCL	Enrichment Map [10]	ClueGO [12]	DAVID [25]	POSOC [26]
Clustering	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clustering basis	Jaccard Coefficient/Overlap Coefficient	Jaccard Coefficient/Overlap Coefficient	Kappa statistics	Kappa statistics	GO hierarchical distance
Clustering method	Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm	Visual identification	Iterative merging	Iterative merging	Ranking
Sub-clustering	Yes	No	No	No	No
Type of visualization support	Network and Hierarchy	Network	Network	Table	Table
Compatible with other enrichment tools	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Batch processing	Yes	No	No	No	No