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Table 2 Characteristics of probe set definitions

From: Improved precision and accuracy for microarrays using updated probe set definitions

Probe set definition

Number of probe sets

Mean number of probe pairs per probe set

NetAffx (original)

22283

11.1

ensEMBL exon

35191

9.3

ensEMBL gene

18671

14.0

ensEMBL transcript

36174

13.9

Entrez

12132

14.1

RefSeq

17880

14.9

UniGene

11694

15.0

  1. The table shows the number of probe sets together whith the average number of probes within each probeset obtained using each probe set definition for the HG-U133A platform.