Table 3.
Micro-Exon Finding by Popular cDNA Alignment Programs
|
Program |
C. elegans |
D. melanogaster |
A. thaliana |
Human |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total micro-exons | 6 | 24 | 66 | 223 |
| GeneSeqer | 5 | 14 | 66 | 75 |
| dds/gap2 | 5 | 16 | 51 | 165 |
| Spidey | 4 | 8 | 32 | 101 |
| Sim4 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 25 |
| BLAT | 5 | 20 | 59 | 172 |
|
All programs failed
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
22
|
-
The alignment program comparison was restricted to the 319 micro-exons identified using the corrected spliced alignment procedure. For gap2 and GeneSeqer, only the top scoring alignment was examined; micro-exons identified within lower scoring alignments were not described here.
