Subject area	Biology
More specific subject area	Transcriptomics, environmental toxicology
Type of data	Data tables and corresponding visualizations
How data was acquired	Affymetrix GeneChip® Yeast Genome 2.0 Array, Robust Multichip Average normalization, statistical analysis
Data formats	Raw and normalized microarray data table Water and media chemistry metadata table One-way analysis of variance results gene table Differentially expressed gene table
Experimental factors	Treatment (asbestos mine tailings-exposed) vs. control
Experimental features	Total RNA was recovered from four Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain NRRLY-12632 (ATCC® 18824) replicates exposed to simulated asbestos mine tailings runoff for a 24-h period and three control replicates.
Data source location	Lowell tailings pile, Vermont Asbestos Group Mine, Lowell, Vermont, USA (near 44°45׳51.8"N 72°31׳22.2"W)
Data accessibility	Microarray data and some sample metadata are available at NCBI GEO SeriesGSE89875: rhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE89875. Water and media chemistry data tables as well as gene statistical data tables are available in this article.