For each of the four prioritizations the training set is based on Gene Ontology annotation for the respective pathway, namely GO:0000165 (MAPK) for the ERK pathway (A), GO:0007259 for JAK-STAT (B), GO:00016055 for Wnt (C), and GO:0007224 (smoothened) for hh (D). The green curve represents the cumulative recovery of positive genes when moving down the top 10% of the ranked gene list, using the full training set. The orange curve is similar to the green curve, but now excluding the known GO-annotated positives from the RNAi screen from the training set. The blue control curve is the average recovery curve of the positives, using 100 random training sets of known GO-annotated genes. The grey area represents a 95% confidence interval above the mean and the dotted curve represents two standard deviations above the mean, so that every point above the dotted curve represents a significant (p<0.05) enrichment of true positives. For three out of four, namely ERK, Wnt and JAK-STAT, a significant enrichment of positives is found at nearly all thresholds in the top 10% of the genome.