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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Vis Exp. 2021 Oct 19;(176):10.3791/62796. doi: 10.3791/62796

Table 1. Simulation studies of co-expression cluster detection.

Conditions with optimal performance are highlighted in red.

% top proteins for analysis # simulated modules # detected modules # recaptured modules1 precision2 recall3
Highly dynamic proteome (e.g., during T cell activation): 6 simulated modules from 50% proteome

2 6 2 2 1 0.33
5 6 2 2 1 0.33
10 6 3 3 1 0.5
20 6 4 4 1 0.67
50 6 6 6 1 1
100 6 8 5 0.63 0.83

Relatively stable proteome (e.g., during pathogenesis of AD): 3 simulated modules from 2% proteome

1 3 1 1 1 0.33
2 3 3 3 1 1
5 3 8 3 0.38 1
10 3 13 3 0.23 1
20 3 19 3 0.16 1
50 3 71 2 0.03 0.67
100 3 169 2 0.01 0.67
1

A recaptured module is a detected module whose eigengene highly correlates (Pearson R > 0.95) with one of the simulated eigengenes.

2

precision = # recaptured modules / # detected modules

3

recall = # recaptured modules / # simulated modules