Table 1.
Keyword-Based Classification of EST Libraries into Organ Systems
| Organ system | Main tissue names or keywords used | # Libraries | Total ESTs | ||||
| Homo | Mus | Total | Homo | Mus | Total | ||
| Cell lines | Cell-line, HeLa,… | 198 | 55 | 254 | 131590 | 32389 | 163979 |
| Central nervous system | brain, ear, eye, olfactive, retina | 267 | 75 | 342 | 282448 | 227876 | 510324 |
| Connective tissues and smooth muscle | adipose, connective, fibroblast, smooth-muscle | 72 | 10 | 82 | 28119 | 6301 | 34420 |
| Digestive system | buccal, colon, esophagus, gallbladder, intestine, liver, omentum, pancreas, parotid, stomach | 864 | 36 | 900 | 291371 | 128301 | 419672 |
| Endocrine glands | adrenal, parathyroid, pineal, thyroid | 39 | 6 | 45 | 44240 | 14170 | 58410 |
| Exocrine glands | breast, ductal, mammary | 980 | 13 | 993 | 116127 | 152046 | 268173 |
| Immune system and blood elements | Bcell, blood, bone-marrow, hemopoietic, leukocyte, lymphatic, macrophage, monocyte, spleen, T-cell, thymus, tonsil | 214 | 45 | 269 | 151749 | 194848 | 346597 |
| Mixed and unknown | chromosomes, whole embryo, mediastinum, metastase, mixed, unknown | 132 | 108 | 240 | 353749 | 425154 | 778903 |
| Peripheral nervous system | chord, nervous, oblongata, spinal | 302 | 12 | 314 | 43811 | 65047 | 108858 |
| Respiratory system | bronchi, larynx, lung, pharynx, trachea | 138 | 11 | 149 | 135831 | 28324 | 164155 |
| Bone and skeletic muscle | bone, cartilage, muscle, synovial | 30 | 13 | 43 | 52499 | 37039 | 89538 |
| Skin | cornea, derm | 744 | 8 | 752 | 126789 | 48074 | 174863 |
| Urogenital system | bladder, endometrium, epididym, germinal, gonad, kidney, ovary, oviduct, placenta, prostate, testis, urogenital, uterus, vagina | 937 | 65 | 1002 | 604173 | 246046 | 850219 |
| Vascular system | aorta, endothelium, heart, vein | 43 | 12 | 55 | 90396 | 51952 | 142348 |
| 4960 | 468 | 4886 | 2,452,892 | 1,657,567 | 4,110,459 | ||
