ListComp

Tools developed by the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, ISA - CNR, Italy

ListComp is designed to compare lists of accession numbers generated by "omics" studies. These lists are obtained in microarrays studies, or proteomics, just as examples, representing genes or proteins observed under specific experimental conditions. The comparison of two lists of accession numbers (or other unique representative codes) represents a crucial step of the differential analysis. When very large number of accession numbers are listed, the comparison can be difficult. This tool is aimed to help the comparison.

Note that, due the characteristics of the tool, each input list is expected to be a list of codes separated by lines. However, each line in the input is considered "as it is" and, therefore, the tool can be used to compare any couple of lists, independently by the line content.

Type/Paste here list no. 1 of accession numbers:

Type/Paste here list no. 2 of accession numbers:

Options

Create a simple tab-spaced table:
Yes
No
Note: this output is useful to copy&paste the result, so that it can be included in spreadsheets or other applications. This output can be difficult to see if the length of input lines are very different. For a better visual analysis, the default output creates a more regular table.

Case sensitive comparison:
Yes
No

Remove blank spaces from the input lists:
Yes
No
Note: two lines reporting the same code appear identical but blank spaces at the end of a line can make them different. If you are comparing lists of single words (accession numbers or other codes), it may be useful to set this option to YES. If you are comparing phrases or, more in general, lines containing more words separated by blanks, set this option to NO.

Remove tabs from the input lists:
Yes
No
Note: apply this option to clean the lists when they are expected to report single codes per line, but similarly to the previous option, be careful if you are using the tool for lists reporting other contents.