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Complementary RNA amplification methods enhance microarray identification of transcripts expressed in the C. elegans nervous system

Joseph D Watson1,2 email, Shenglong Wang3 email, Stephen E Von Stetina1 email, W Clay Spencer1 email, Shawn Levy4 email, Phillip J Dexheimer4 email, Nurith Kurn3 email, Joe Don Heath3 email and David M Miller III1,2 email

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8240, USA

Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8548, USA

NuGEN Technologies, Inc., San Carlos, CA 94070, USA

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8240, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:84doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-84

Published: 19 February 2008

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Genes detected in neurons by WT-Pico and IVT. A list of genes present in 3 of 3 IVT pan-neural samples and 5 of 5 WT-Pico pan-neural samples. Worksheets include genes found multiple times in a single data set (with dups) and a list in which these duplications have been removed (without dups).

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WT-Pico pan-neural enriched and depleted genes. These worksheets list the pan-neural enriched genes from WT-Pico and also genes depleted in the WT-Pico data set relative to reference samples.

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Additional File 3:

IVT pan-neural enriched genes. These worksheets contain pan-neural enriched data sets previously published in our lab [8]. This data has been updated from WS140 to WS170 to reflect changes in C. elegans annotation.

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WormBase 170 (WS170) annotated Affymetrix data. This file contains descriptions of all genes on the Affymetrix C. elegans expression array.

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Fold change of transcripts present in both WT-Pico and IVT pan-neural data sets. This file identifies all transcripts present in both IVT and WT-Pico pan-neural data sets and also lists the fold change of these transcripts. This list was used to generate the scatter plot from fig. 5.

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A comparison of transcripts enriched in IVT and WT-Pico pan-neural data sets. The three worksheets contained in this file list genes found in the IVT-only data set, the WT-Pico-only data set, or genes enriched in both the IVT and WT-Pico data sets.

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Uncharacterized conserved genes found in the WT-Pico-only data set. This file contains a list of WT-Pico-only conserved, uncharacterized genes that have available mouse in situ data.

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3' bias analysis of IVT and WT-Pico data. This file contains raw data and charts used to examine 3' bias in IVT and WT-Pico amplifications.

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Full list of GFP reporter lines generated for figure 8. List strain names and full expression patterns of GFP reporter lines built for this analysis.

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Present calls perl script. Perl script file used to determine which genes on the Affymetrix array were present in 3 of 3 IVT samples.

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