In total, therefore, the composite dataset consisted of 550 microarray samples, including representatives from 10 cell types in addition to normal human skin.
A total of 150 NSCLC tissue microarray samples, including 82 cases of lung adenocarcinoma and 68 cases of lung squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs), were collected from Shanghai Outdo Biotech Co. Ltd. between Dec. 2004 and Jan . 2008
All the microarray samples included in this study have been prepared at Finnish DNA Microarray Centre, Turku.
To maximize the uniformity of the microarray data, all the samples, including the ones analyzed by DNA microarray previously, were hybridized to the same platform (the NIA Mouse 44K Microarray v3.0 manufactured by Agilent Technologies #015 015).
Each microarray contains 159 thyroid tissue samples, including 81 thyroid carcinomas, 38 thyroid adenomas, and 40 normal thyroid tissues.
This data set contained microarray data from two different samples, including the third leaf primordium and the third mature leaves of rice.
Microarray expression data from 79 samples (including different tissues and developmental stages) in the study by (Schmid et al. 2005) were downloaded from http://www.webcitation.org/getfile?fileid=73b38cfb54fd3dba9bc1299632d18aab1228162b (last accessed September 19 , 2014.
We profiled microRNA expression levels on a microarray platform in 252 tumor samples including 15 brain primary tumor samples, 187 non-brain primary tumors, and 50 brain metastases from various tissue origins (see summary in Table 1 and detail in Table S1 in Supporting Information online).
Microarray data for Arabidopsis thaliana developmental samples (including some from characteristic mutants) were obtained using the AtGenExpress Visualization Tool (http://jsp.weigelworld.org/expviz/expviz.jsp; data obtained by [24]).
Validation was based on 68 samples, including 43 T and 25 NT, also used for the microarray analysis.
The tissue microarray slides (Shanghai Biochip Company, Ltd., Shanghai, China) contained 120 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples, including 50 ESCC tissues, 10 NEET samples.
