The ISU microarray facility have generated a maize gene chip that contains 12,160 spotted cDNA inserts. These cDNA clones were obtained from NSF Plant Genome EST projects led by Ginny Walbot and Pat Schnable.
Global gene expression profiling of developing maize anthers
Data table header descriptions
ID
meta_row
The number of rows of subgrids
meta_column
The number of columns of subgrids
row
The number of rows of spots contained within the grid
column
The number of columns of spots contained within the grid
ref
Plate source refer information of spots
GB_ACC
GeneBank Accession Number of spots
GB_LIST
List of GenBank Accession Numbers if a spot is associated with more than one number
SPOT_ID
Identify the feature of spots without GB_ACC
SPOT_INFO
Specifies spot category - Maize Gene, Maize Control Gene, Exogenous, Human Control Gene, No Sequence (Sequence not obtained while resequencing the spot), Unspecified (Suspected cross contamination), Empty (The original source plate well was empty or added to chip to fill the matrix), BadPCR (Anything that didn't have one distinct band, e.g. no band, multiple bands, smears) and Unknown (No GB_ACC or Clone ID or No ID given)