Table 2

Examples for false positive matches in the BioCreative competition. Samples of false positive matches in the best submitted mouse search run. Detected matches are printed in bold.

Description

Examples

Unspecific synonym

growth retarded, perinatal lethality, long lived

Wrong context

TGF-beta superfamily, c-myc tumors

Unknown ambiguity

high dose set at MTD or MFD

Unclear, why marked as incorrect

interleukin-2, H-2 locus, c-Jun

Hanisch et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6(Suppl 1):S14   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-S1-S14