Figure 8.

Comparison of libraries in dbEST for quantitative expression levels. VNB-generated expression profiles for mouse aldolase A from nonnormalized/unmanipulated (quantitative) libraries (solid bars), and from normalized/manipulated (qualitative) libraries (gray bars), are plotted for 27 tissues. Details are available in Materials and Methods. In brief, absolute expression levels (#EST hits for aldolase A/#ESTs in libraries from that tissue) were from values gleaned from CGAP (35) using EST library IDs as described in the text. Tissues with (*) denote those for which expression levels were either comparable or normalization resulted in higher aldoA expression.