Table 1.

Basic Features in Three Genome-Wide Expression Experiments

References Roth et al.(1998) Cho et al. (1998) Spellman et al. (1998)
GoalsGal-responsive, heat shock and mating type-specific genes and cis-acting elementsCell cycle-regulated genes and cis-acting elements Cell cycle-regulated genes and cis-acting elements
TechnologyAffymetrix oligo chipsAffymetrix oligo chipscDNA microarrays
Experiments and synchronization methodstwo-point comparisons: (1) galactose vs. glucose; (2) 39°C vs. 30°C; (3) type α vs. typea multipoint comparisons: (1) cdc28-13 ts mutant;[i] (2) cdc15-2 ts mutanttwo-point comparisons: (1) cln3+ vs.cln3 ; (2) clb2+ vs.clb2 ;
Multipoint comparisons: (1) α-factor arrest; (2) elutriation; (3)cdc15-2 ts mutant
Cluster methodssimple sortingvisual identification of periodic peakssimple sorting for the two-point data; Fourier transform and Pearson-type correlation for the multipoint
Putative new/total genes identified(1) 3/9, (2) 6/33, (3) 7/40∼300/416∼700/800
Motif toolsAlignACEoligonucleotide biasoligonucleotide information
Database searchTRANSFACvisual extensionGibbsDNA
TRANSFACTRANSFAC+SCPD
Upstream of ATG<600 bp500 bp700 bp

[i] (ts) Temperature sensitive.