Table 4

Error analysis of the false positives (percentage) for ChemSpider and Chemlist.

Error type

False positives


ChemSpider

Chemlist


Partial match

21 (64%)

96 (41%)

Annotation error

11 (33%)

29 (13%)

Out of corpus scope

1 (3%)

79 (34%)

Not a chemical

0

28 (12%)


Hettne et al. Journal of Cheminformatics 2010 2:3   doi:10.1186/1758-2946-2-3

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