Figure 6

Species-specific advanced search. (A) A detailed list of all defined developmental stages and expression domains (to reduce the size of the figure some have been omitted) is available for a species-specific advanced search (in this case Nematostella vectensis). By selecting the stage(s) and domain(s) of interest (in this example animal plate (presumptive endoderm) at the blastula stage, indicated by green circles) the user will retrieve (B) a list of genes that fulfill the search criteria. (C) Comparison table obtained after selecting all genes of the result list with a score of one. All green cells indicate that indeed the identified genes are co-expressed in the same domain at the same stage, while their expressions differ in other stages (orange and yellow cells). (D) Clicking on the green cell (in this case the blastula stage), will open a new window in which all blastula stages of the given genes are shown allowing the user to verify the information directly on the submitted images.