Table 1

The five datasets used in our analysis

Source (paper, datasets)
Array type
Description
Number of genes
Number of experiments

[46,52]
Spotted
Budding yeast during cell cycle and CLB2/CLN3 overactive strain
4,579
22
[47,54]
Oligonucleotide
Budding yeast during cell cycle
6,616
17
[48,56]
Spotted
Yeast in various stressful conditions
6,152
173
[8,59]
Spotted
C. elegans in various conditions
17,817
553
[45,53]
Oligonucleotide
Normal human tissue including 19 kinds of tissues
7,070
59

For each dataset, the source of the dataset, the type of microarray, the organism, a short description of the experimental conditions, the number of genes, and the number of experiments, are shown.

Lee and Batzoglou Genome Biology 2003 4:R76   doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-11-r76

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