Table 1.
Micro-Exons Found Using the Spliced Alignment Correction Procedure
|
Genome |
Number ofcDNAs |
Micro-exons |
Previously annotated micro-exons |
Exon skipping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C. elegans | 1,356 | 6 | 2 (WormBase, March 2002) | 3 |
| D. melanogaster | 8,214 | 24 | 10 (Celera and FlyBase, March 2002) | 3 |
| A. thaliana | 16,956 | 66 | 30 (TIGR, November 2001) | 1 |
|
Human
|
59,413
|
223
|
53 (Celera, 2001) 67 (Ensembl, March 2002)
|
53
|
-
Of the 319 micro-exons found using the spliced alignment correction procedure, 224 were previously unknown.
