STRING · Schema

EnrichmentResult

A single enriched functional term from STRING functional enrichment analysis.

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
category	string	Functional annotation category
term	string	Functional term identifier
description	string	Human-readable description of the functional term
number_of_genes	integer	Number of input genes annotated to this term
number_of_genes_in_background	integer	Number of background proteome genes annotated to this term
ncbiTaxonId	integer	NCBI taxon ID of the species
inputGenes	string	Comma-separated STRING identifiers of input genes annotated to this term
preferredNames	string	Comma-separated preferred gene names annotated to this term
p_value	number	Enrichment p-value from hypergeometric test
fdr	number	Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate corrected p-value

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://string-db.org/schema/enrichment-result.json",
  "title": "EnrichmentResult",
  "description": "A single enriched functional term from STRING functional enrichment analysis.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Functional annotation category",
      "enum": [
        "Process",
        "Function",
        "Component",
        "Keyword",
        "KEGG",
        "RCTM",
        "Pfam",
        "InterPro",
        "SMART",
        "NetworkNeighborAL",
        "COMPARTMENTS",
        "Tissue",
        "Disease"
      ],
      "examples": ["Process"]
    },
    "term": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Functional term identifier",
      "examples": ["GO:0006915"]
    },
    "description": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Human-readable description of the functional term",
      "examples": ["apoptotic process"]
    },
    "number_of_genes": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Number of input genes annotated to this term",
      "minimum": 1
    },
    "number_of_genes_in_background": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Number of background proteome genes annotated to this term",
      "minimum": 0
    },
    "ncbiTaxonId": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "NCBI taxon ID of the species",
      "examples": [9606]
    },
    "inputGenes": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Comma-separated STRING identifiers of input genes annotated to this term"
    },
    "preferredNames": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Comma-separated preferred gene names annotated to this term"
    },
    "p_value": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Enrichment p-value from hypergeometric test",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 1,
      "examples": [1.23e-10]
    },
    "fdr": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate corrected p-value",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 1,
      "examples": [4.56e-8]
    }
  },
  "required": ["category", "term", "number_of_genes", "p_value", "fdr"]
}