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Table 1 Error rates for the CGAP library selection tools

From: Errors in CGAP xProfiler and cDNA DGED: the importance of library parsing and gene selection algorithms

Tissue types available

Percentage of correctly reported libraries

Percentage of incorrectly reported libraries

Adipose

100.00

0.00

Adrenal cortex

100.00

0.00

Adrenal medulla

100.00

0.00

Bone

33.04

66.96

Bone marrow

96.43

3.57

Brain

53.29

46.71

Breast/Mammary Gland

99.39

0.61

Cartilage

100.00

0.00

Cerebellum

92.86

7.14

Cerebrum

99.53

0.47

Cervix

100.00

0.00

Colon

98.88

1.12

Ear

5.66

94.34

Embryonic tissue

8.45

91.55

Endocrine

5.62

94.38

Eye

61.11

38.89

Gastrointestinal tract

3.47

96.53

Genitourinary systema

0.00

0.00

Germ cell

11.54

88.46

Head and neck

0.42

99.58

Heart

51.76

48.24

Kidney

94.31

5.69

Limb

0.00

100.00

Liver

83.66

16.34

Lung

97.27

2.73

Lymph node

100.00

0.00

Lymphoreticular

14.16

85.84

Mammary gland/Breast

99.39

0.61

Muscle

25.71

74.29

Nervous

0.92

99.08

Oesophagus

95.45

4.55

Ovary

95.92

4.08

Pancreas

67.35

32.65

Pancreatic islet

100.00

0.00

Parathyroid

57.14

42.86

Peripheral nervous system

12.50

87.50

Pineal gland

87.50

12.50

Pituitary gland

93.33

6.67

Placenta

99.48

0.52

Pooled tissueb

Not available

Not available

Prostate

97.46

2.54

Retina

100.00

0.00

Salivary gland

62.50

37.50

Skin

89.00

11.00

Soft tissue

1.74

98.26

Spleen

78.57

21.43

Stem cell

33.72

66.28

Stomach

94.07

5.93

Synovium

100.00

0.00

Testis

98.67

1.33

Thymus

97.50

2.50

Thyroid

97.57

2.43

Uncharacterised tissue

99.75

0.25

Uterus

99.22

0.78

Vascular

91.89

8.11

White Blood Cellsb

0.00

0.00

  1. a No libraries were present in the database for these tissues
  2. b Pooled tissue was not available in the CGAP tools, which listed these libraries under each of the tissues they were produced from.