what is the mean of "%" in DAVID Gene-annotation enrichment analysis

Question

[zhao03]

Hi,

when i ran gene enrichment in DAVID , i got the result like this, however , i don't understand the column of "%".

Term Count % PValue List Total Pop Hits Pop Total

GO:0070062~extracellular exosome 1179 39.93902439 2.15E-295 2911 2811 18224

thank you for your help!~

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

Check the documentation. This is the percentage of genes annotated with the term over the total number of genes in the list.