Table 2.

Expert user’s perspective on the effectiveness of user interactions from three GO enrichment tools: MonaGO, DAVID, and Metascape

	MonaGo scoring	Metascape scoring	DAVID scoring
Required time to complete task	4.5	3	3
Relevance of outputs	4	3	3.5
Intuitiveness	4	4	3
Ease of use	4	4	3
Visual quality: layout and design	4	3.5	2.5
Sufficency of information	4.5	2.5	3.5
Customisability of resulting graphs	4.5	3	2
User friendliness	4.5	3.5	3

Eight expert users were asked to rate different aspects of the environments on a five-level scale: from most effective (5) to lowest quality (1). The median scores from eight participants were shown. The highest scores (including ties) based on each criteria (row) were highlighted in bold