Table 1

MIPS functional classes used to compare with MRF-NB approach

Functional categories
No. of genes annotated

Cell cycle and DNA processing
600
Cell fate
411
Cell rescue, defense and virulence
264
Cellular transport and transport mechanisms
479
Control of cellular organization
192
Energy
242
Metabolism
1,048
Protein fate (folding, modification, destination)
578
Protein synthesis
335
Regulation of/interaction with cellular environment
193
Transcription
753
Transport facilitation
306
Others (cellular communication/signal transduction mechanism, or protein activity regulation, or protein with binding function or cofactor requirement (structural or catalytic), or transposable elements, viral and plasmid proteins)
81


Total
3,588

MIPS, Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences; MRF, Markov random field; NB, naïve bayes.

Tian et al. Genome Biology 2008 9(Suppl 1):S7   doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-s1-s7