Table 4.

Comparison results of miRDriver with five other methods in ovarian cancer.

Method	Input miRNAs	Input genes	Computed miRNAs	Selected genes	Eligible miRNAsa	Overlapping eligible miRNAsb	Method's computed miRNAs in overlap	miRDriver's computed miRNAs in the overlap
miRDriver	198	2114	147	354	27	NA	NA	NA
ARACNe	198	2114	196	791	59	27	1	24
ProMise	198	2114	57	1938	34	22	0	17
hiddenICP	198	2114	198	2100	47	21	0	16
idaFast	50	1500	50	1194	32	22	0	17
jointIDA	50	1500	50	1294	32	22	0	17

^aEligible miRNAs had at least one known target in the ground truth data; ^bOverlapping eligible miRNAs were with respect to miRDriver. For miRDriver, the number of significant miRNAs in every overlap with other methods was much higher. NA means not applicable.