Table 3

Distribution of Retrieved and Relevant Documents (9,390 genes) A topic is defined as a gene query. Thus, in the table, 5270 gene queries retrieve between 0–100 documents and 7101 gene queries have between 1–5 relevant documents identified in LocusLink.

# Retrieved Documents

# Topics

# Relevant Documents

# Topics

0–100

5270 (56%)

1–5

7101 (76%)

101–500

1944 (21%)

6–10

1344 (14%)

500–1000

633 (7%)

11–15

430 (5%)

1001–2500

676 (7%)

16–20

204 (2%)

2501–5000

323 (3%)

21–25

100 (1%)

5001–10000

230 (2%)

26–30

58 (<1%)

10001–25000

154 (2%)

31–35

38 (<1%)

25001–50000

71 (1%)

36–40

29 (<1%)

> 50,000

89 (<1%)

> 40

86 (<1%)

Sehgal and Srinivasan BMC Bioinformatics 2006 7:220   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-220