Table 4.
Results in response to queries for expression status of genes under different testicular conditions.
| No. of genes retrieved in response to different queries | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Database1 | Normal testis (human) | Azoospermia (human) | Asthenozoospermia (human) | Testicular cancer2 (human) | Adjudin treatment (rat) | Developmental stage-postnatal (mouse) |
| MGEx-Tdb | 12753 | 5215 | 10 | 16617 | 10982 | 15209 (day 14) |
| BioGPS3 | 403 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| RefExA4 | 92 | 3 | 0 | 3 | NA | NA |
| TissueDistributionDBs4 | 16124 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| UniGene4 | 18421 | 4 | 0 | 194 | 0 | 15 |
| HPRD | 4249 | 2 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA |
Notes:
See additional file 9 for detailed methods;
NA: Not Applicable, i.e., data restricted to humans only in these databases;
1The URLs are listed in the additional file 4.
2Querying with testis AND cancer retrieved 116 genes in BioGPS; "Germ cell cancer" in testis retrieved 9655 genes (10042 hits) in TissueDistributionDBs and "Germ cell tumor" in testis retrieved 14874 genes (18130 hits) in UniGene and 2 genes in HPRD.
3Includes results from human, mouse & rat species (search can not be restricted to specific species).
4Number of genes in the results corresponding to different queries: probe names in case of RefExA & cluster IDs in case of UniGene & TissueDistributionDBs.
5Querying with alternative equivalent terms of postnatal (neonate) retrieved 10467 genes (11519 hits) in UniGene.