Comparing distributions of experimental and random diffusion values (p-values for KS tests) Seeds Recipients Randomize Seeds (degree-matched) Randomize Recipients (degree-matched) Randomize Seeds (uniform) Randomize Recipients (uniform) GeneGroup1 GeneGroup2 8.24e-02 8.32e-02 7.53e-03 1.05e-06 GeneGroup2 GeneGroup1 6.16e-01 9.13e-01 8.14e-01 8.23e-01 Evaluating how well GeneGroup1 genes are linked to GeneGroup2 genes, comparing against random ROC results Seeds Recipients AUROC Z-score for Random Seeds (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Recipients (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Seeds (uniform) Z-score for Random Recipients (uniform) GeneGroup1 GeneGroup2 0.79 0.63 2.12 0.87 5.62 GeneGroup2 GeneGroup1 0.66 -0.06 0.36 0.51 0.81 PRC results Seeds Recipients AUPRC Z-score for Random Seeds (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Recipients (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Seeds (uniform) Z-score for Random Recipients (uniform) GeneGroup1 GeneGroup2 0.00 0.17 3.81 1.27 4.17 GeneGroup2 GeneGroup1 0.00 0.72 0.04 1.84 0.41 Z-scores are computed for the experimental area under ROC or PRC based on distributions of the random areas under these curves Seeds: Genes where diffusion signal starts FROM) Recipients: Genes that receive the diffusion signal and that are in the other validated group Random genes are selected either uniformly or degree matched Number of genes ** #Total # Mapped in the network Not mapped genes GeneGroup1 3 3 GeneGroup2 29 29