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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Development. 2008 Jun 11;135(14):2403–2413. doi: 10.1242/dev.019018

Table 1.

Gene ontology for clusters from unsupervised clustering

Annotation Bayes factor
Cluster A

GO:0009607 [4]: response to biotic stimulus 46.51
GO:0006955 [4]: immune response 41.26
GO:0006952 [5]: defense response 40.17
GO:0006950 [4]: response to stress 30.89
GO:0043207 [5]: response to external biotic stimulus 30.78
GO:0050776 [5]: regulation of immune response 29.23
GO:0009613 [5]: response to pest, pathogen or parasite 28.57
GO:0006954 [5]: inflammatory response 28.11
GO:0051246 [5]: regulation of protein metabolism 26.57

Cluster B

GO:0007166 [5]: cell surface receptor linked signal transduction 10.18
GO:0050875 [3]: cellular physiological process 9.89
GO:0007186 [6]: G-protein coupled receptor protein signaling pathway 9.88
GO:0006810 [4]: transport 7.07
GO:0051234 [4]: establishment of localization 7.04
GO:0051179 [3]: localization 6.83
GO:0009581 [5]: detection of external stimulus 6.74
GO:0007600 [5]: sensory perception 6.64
GO:0050877 [4]: neurophysiological process 6.06
GO:0050896 [3]: response to stimulus 5.78

Cluster C

GO:0000279 [6]: M phase 14.29
GO:0007049 [5]: cell cycle 11.92
GO:0000280 [7]: nuclear division 11.34
GO:0007067 [8]: mitosis 9.91
GO:0000087 [7]: M phase of mitotic cell cycle 9.86
GO:0030261 [7]: chromosome condensation 9.85
GO:0008283 [4]: cell proliferation 9.38
GO:0000278 [6]: mitotic cell cycle 7.9
GO:0000088 [9]: mitotic prophase 5.48
GO:0007076 [8]: mitotic chromosome condensation 5.48

Cluster D

GO:0007155 [4]: cell adhesion 13.98
GO:0007600 [5]: sensory perception 13.97
GO:0007275 [2]: development 13.64
GO:0042330 [5]: taxis 12.21
GO:0006935 [6]: chemotaxis 12.21
GO:0009581 [5]: detection of external stimulus 11.96
GO:0006954 [5]: inflammatory response 10.1
GO:0009653 [3]: morphogenesis 8.89
GO:0009887 [4]: organogenesis 7.86
GO:0048513 [3]: organ development 7.72

Individual genes from each of the four clusters identified by unsupervised clustering (Fig. 2A) were used to search in gene ontology resources to identify major classes of genes. GATHER was used to define the ontology of each cluster using the Bayes factor as a measure of significance.