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Table 4. Distribution of fit parameters.

A simple linear fit, ${\hat{A}}_{i j} = m_{i} \cdot Q_{j} + b_{i}$ , was computed for each gene i and a correlation coefficient r was calculated. For brevity, $\bar{x}$ is the mean of some variable x, and σ_x is its standard deviation.

Protocol	$\bar{m} \pm σ_{m}$	$\bar{b} \pm σ_{b}$	$\bar{r} \pm σ_{r}$
TruSeq	1.01 ± 0.0698	−0.108 ± 1.05	0.98 ± 0.019
Clontech	1.01 ± 0.12	−0.217 ± 1.79	0.95 ± 0.061
Epicentre TotalScript	0.952 ± 0.129	0.715 ± 1.93	0.93 ± 0.094
Smart-seq2	1.03 ± 0.121	−0.506 ± 1.82	0.95 ± 0.057
Smart-seq2, 2.5 fold dilution	0.996 ± 0.111	0.0623 ± 1.67	0.96 ± 0.053
Smart-seq2, 5 fold dilution	1.01 ± 0.111	−0.173 ± 1.66	0.96 ± 0.049