Table 1:

Statistics for the 10 largest transcriptomic compendia found in refine.bio

Species	No. experiments	No. samples
		Median	Total
Homo sapiens	15,440	12	571,862
Mus musculus	13,224	10	296,829
Arabidopsis thaliana	1,627	9	24,855
Rattus norvegicus	1,368	12	38,530
Drosophila melanogaster	853	9	17,836
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	627	12	12,972
Danio rerio	546	9.5	28,518
Caenorhabditis elegans	375	10	7,953
Sus scrofa	280	12	6,063
Zea mays	274	5	3,458

The refine.bio meta-repository contains publicly available expression data from the SRA [20], Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) [21], and ArrayExpress [22]. Public data usually have only a modest number of samples per experiment, although many samples are available in aggregate.