Cross-Chip Probe Matching Tool: A Web-Based Tool for Linking Microarray Probes within and across Plant Species

Table 2

Comparing microarray vendor and CCPMT mappings.

Type of match	Affymetrix AG	Affymetrix ATH1	Operon	CATMA	AFGC
Number of probes per array type	8297	22810	29954	24576	19108
Nil entries from vendor (no mapping for these probes)	141	250	936	2969	2823
Absent-vendor; present-blast	0	0	0	0	1
Present-vendor; absent-blast	850	930	2335	2990	10952
Many-vendor; one-blast	124	584	0	30	117
One-vendor; many-blast	338	896	480	408	368
Exact match	6932	20193	26138	19551	6413^a
Percentage of the vendor mapping numbers	84%	89%	87%	80%	34%