Table 6

Performance by Level of Hierarchy. The table shows that level of hierarchy makes a difference. For example, with MF and BP the more difficult classification decisions are at the higher levels.

Hierarchy
Level
# of Codes
Scores



Recall
Precision
FScore

MF
1
4
0.3176
0.1786
0.2205
MF
2
26
0.4846
0.2666
0.3176
MF
3
41
0.5261
0.3145
0.3695
MF
4
50
0.6780
0.4449
0.5066
MF
5
57
0.7799
0.4936
0.5732
MF
6
17
0.8937
0.5548
0.6505
MF
7
11
0.6961
0.3876
0.4728
MF
8
4
0.675
0.475
0.5233
MF
9
2
0.8
0.6
0.6667

CC
1
1
0.3171
0.2235
0.2537
CC
2
20
0.6476
0.4017
0.4675
CC
3
25
0.6062
0.349
0.4089
CC
4
26
0.5547
0.306
0.3741
CC
5
14
0.5502
0.2832
0.3622
CC
6
6
0.3955
0.2717
0.3135
CC
7
1
1
0.7917
0.8667

BP
1
3
0.1354
0.0481
0.0704
BP
2
10
0.3327
0.1767
0.2174
BP
3
34
0.5164
0.2517
0.3179
BP
4
54
0.4849
0.2563
0.3119
BP
5
49
0.4681
0.2516
0.3093
BP
6
52
0.4555
0.2734
0.3139
BP
7
51
0.5863
0.3251
0.3921
BP
8
21
0.4677
0.2834
0.3301
BP
9
8
0.4698
0.2840
0.3316

Srinivasan and Qiu BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8(Suppl 9):S3   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S9-S3