Table 1 Comparison of Liverome with other related tools.
| Â | Liverome | EHCO | dbDEPC | CCancer | GeneSigDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Data coverage | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Coverage of phenotype | HCC only | HCC only | 15 cancers | Half the data are on cancer | Mostly cancer and stem cell |
Coverage of HCC-specific data (signatures // articles) | 143 // 98 | 12 // 32 | 6 // 5 | 25 // 21 | 34 // 18 |
Overall data coverage | Same as above | Same as above | 65 // 48 | 3369 // 2644 | 2142 // 973 |
Covers both transcriptomics and proteomics studies | Yes | Yes | No (proteomics only) | Yes | Yes |
Data content | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Explicit designation of compared sample groups | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Contains numerical ranking information | Yes | No (change direction only) | Yes (fold change only) | No | Yes |
Uniform representation of numerical ranking values | Yes (unique to Liverome) | No | No | No | No |
Informative naming of signatures | Yes (unique to Liverome) | No | No | No | No |
Summary of experiment | Yes (unique to Liverome) | No | No | No | No |
Web interface | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Signature comparison tool | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Gene search tool | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Functional categorization of signatures for guided browsing | Yes (unique to Liverome) | No | No | No | No |
Spreadsheet-like sorting utility for prioritization | Yes (unique to Liverome) | No | No | No | No |