A Comparative Molecular Analysis of Developing Mouse Forelimbs and Hindlimbs Using Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)

Table 1.

Summary of SAGE Libraries

SAGE library
Forelimb Hindlimb
Total SAGE tags excluding linkers 68,406 68,450
Unique transcripts 23,140 22,329
Transcripts observed in both  libraries 9,169
Linker contamination 450 (0.65%) 405 (0.64%)
Frequency of duplicate DiTags 1.05% 0.84%
Average GC content 48.3 47.5
Number of clones sequenced 3,639
Averaged phredscore per base 38 38
  • Linker sequences removed from our SAGE libraries were TCCCTATTAA and TCCCCGTACA.

  • Upon examination of several duplicate DiTags in the limb SAGE libraries, all were found to be composed of high abundance SAGE Tags (data not shown), indicating that the duplicate DiTags in these SAGE libraries were not due to DiTag amplification bias.

  • For an explanation of this value, in the context of the quality of a SAGE library, see Margulies et al. (2001).

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