Figure 6

Gene coverage comparison between mouse microarray platforms and oligonucleotide sets. Coverage percent is calculated as (number of genes tested)/(number of genes in the genome) × 100. The total number of genes in the genome was calculated as the number of Entrez Genes that could be mapped to a unique position in the UCSC Genome Browser Database, mouse genome Build 35.1. Microarrays are ordered from left to right by date of release. Although this was not known for every platform, we estimated the date of release using the available information both from vendor web sites and from personal communications with their costumer support (details in [Additional file 1]).