Table 1.
Tissue Divisions Used for STACK
| dbEST 101598 Homo sapiens tissue partitioning | ||
| Arbitrary tissue partitions | Substituent tissues types | Total ESTs |
| Adipose | brown, white | 2,376 |
| Brain | frontal lobe, cerebrum, cerebellum, cortex | 177,719 |
| Cochlea | fetal cochlea | 4,304 |
| Connective | bone, skin, synovial membrane | 40,753 |
| Digestive | stomach, colon, gall bladder | 51,032 |
| Disease | duplicates of ESTs annotated as tumors | 114,496 |
| Eye | retina, cornea, ocular | 28,514 |
| Genomic | specified chromosomes | 101,986 |
| Glands | breat, endocrine | 112,346 |
| Heart | fetal heart, aorta | 69,830 |
| Hemato-lymphatic | blood, kidney, liver–spleen | 255,565 |
| Lung | trachea, larynx, lung | 70,259 |
| Muscle | leg, pectoral | 16,237 |
| Olfactory | olfactory epithelium | 2,600 |
| Other | monocytes, mononuclear cells | 25,925 |
| Reproductive | ovary, testis, uterus | 239,161 |
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Sequences were partitioned over an arbitrarily defined tissue hierarchy designed to group physically related tissues and remain within constraints of computational resources. Genomic tissue is a set of ESTs labeled only as having a genomic region of hybridization without a tissue source. The set of duplicate copies of all disease-related sequences is loosely referred to as a tissue for this work.
