[i] The cDNAs have been grouped into ten functional categories (see Statistics—Classification) based on sequence similarity data and have been grouped accordingly. The cDNA clones are available from the Resource Center of the German Genome project using the clone ID shown in the first column. The respective sequences are available at the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases under the accession numbers shown in the second column. The third column provides the size of the individual cDNA inserts, and the fourth column shows the size of the encoded/predicted proteins. The chromosomal location of the respective genes is shown in the fifth column. Columns 6–8 describe database hits with the highest similarity: The accession number of the best hit (and the database where this hit was found), the description of the best hit, and the P-value of this hit is provided in these three columns, respectively. Similarities were predicted based on BLASTX and BLASTN2 analyses. Selection of the “representative = best” hit was done using the following criteria: (1) A BLASTX hit was judged better than a BLASTN hit. (2) In cases where the best BLASTX (only with TREMBL database) hit had been calculated from the same nucleotide sequence entry that was the best hit in the BLASTN analysis, the BLASTN hit is given, and (3) Only when no other hits were available, genomic sequence entries are given.

[ii] If classification of a protein to a major gene family was possible (based on similarity information), the respective family is shown in column 9. Based on the availability of EST information, tissue-specific expression of transcripts has been depicted in columns 10–13, showing the tissue, an arbitrary score (see WWW2001) and the absolute number of ESTs sequenced from that particular tissue (at the time of analysis), respectively.

[iii] This section is excerpted from the full table, available on-line at http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/abt0840/GCC.