
The assembly of human transcripts enabled a greater number of UNIGENE entries with a protein homology. The UNIGENE and HINT consensus sequences were aligned to the SWISSPROT, TrEMBL, and PIR protein databases by use of the program BLASTX. Protein alignments with the highest scores were selected from each UNIGENE and HINT transcript consensus and broken into five groups according to their BLAST scores, ranging from the highest >500 to 100–200 (x-axis). (y-axis) Numbers of transcript consensus. (Open bars) UNIGENE transcripts; (closed bars) HINT consensus.











