Table 5

Evaluation of the BIRI contents against other indexes

Index Name

Total Resources Indexed

Matches

New in BIRI


Bioinformatics Links Directory [6,7]

1350

235

81


Pathguide [37]

293

10

306


Online Bioinformatics Resource Collection [38]

2368

231

85


ExPASy Life Science Directory [39]

1253

15

301


Molecular Biology Database [5]

1171

28

288


Database of Databases [40]

1056

33

283


Resources at the EBI [8]

111

22

294


We compare the resources contained in the curated BIRI knowledge base with the resources indexed by other public indexes at the time of writing this paper. The table shows: i) the total number of resources indexed by each index, ii) the number of matches found between BIRI and the index, and iii) the number of resources existing in BIRI knowledge base that do not exist in the other index.

de la Calle et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10:320   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-320

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