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Table 2 Information about gold standards (GS) used in the study.

From: New methods for separating causes from effects in genomics data

Task

name

Reference/source

# TFs in GS

# genes in GS

# gene probes for GS genes in gene expression data

# TF-gene interactions

# TF-gene interactions significant at FDR = 0.05

ECOLI

[12, 20]

140

913

913

1,885

1,607

YEAST

[12, 21]

115

1,834

1,834

3,541

2,648

NOTCH1

[22, 40]

1

302

813

813

553

RELA

[22, 41, 42]

1

1,420

3,657

3,657

931

  1. "TF" stands for "transcription factor". Statistically significant associations were determined using Fisher's Z-test at 5% FDR in microarray gene expression data (please see text for details).