
898 Statistics and Data Analysis for Microarrays Using R and Bioconductor
Software name Types of input IDs Numbe r of translations
Onto-Translate 22 462
MatchMiner 11 137
SOURCE 6 96
GeneMerge 12 30
RESOURCERER 1 16
TABLE 27.2: A comparison of the scopes o f Onto-Translate, SOURCE,
MatchMiner, Ge neMe rge and RESOURCERER: types of input IDs supported
and number of possible translatio n type s.
tency a nd coherency issues related to ID mapping approaches that use in-
termediate databases. The results of the query are always obtained with the
most recent data available from all URIs involved. No maintenance or updat-
ing is needed once the queries have b