Table 5  Comparison of STM to competing clustering methods for clusters with 9 or more members
Method  Number  Size  Discard(%)  Function  Location
STM   45   52.4   11.5   16.8   9.01
Maximal clique  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A
Quasi clique  46  16.7  86.7  15.3  9.34
Samantha  17  12.3  93.3  15.9  7.65
Minimum cut  44  24.3  55.0  14.8  8.78
Bwtweenness cut  78  14.4  50.5  11.3  6.05
MCL  55  16.7  69.4  11.5  5.42
Comparison of STM to competing clustering methods for the yeast protein-protein interaction data set for clusters with 9 or more members. The Maximal clique does not identify clusters with 9 or more members. The footnote is the same to Table 4.