Overview of selected papers and selection criteria.

<p>The top panel shows the global results for all papers relevant to the respective question (either all 59 papers or the 55 papers satisfying Condition 3), while the bottom panel shows the results stratified by research field (bioinformatics: BI, computational statistics: CS and machine learning: ML). (A) and (E): Does the paper include a comparison of two or more methods?; (B) and (F): Does the paper include an evaluation on real data?; (C) and (G): Does the paper fulfill Condition 3?; (D) and (H): Does the paper present a new method?