Table 2.

EST Assembly Results

PHRAP [i] CAP3 [ii] CAP3 [iii]
Total sequences analyzed146421464215311
Number of ESTs in contigs846483579481
Number of contigs311929103138
Number of singlets617862855830
Number of putative transcripts   (assembled sequences)929791968966
Number of contigs containing:
 2–4 ESTsN/A26262762
 5–10 ESTsN/A255334
 11–20 ESTsN/A2833
 21–40 ESTsN/A26
 >40 ESTsN/A11

[i] Default settings

[ii] High-quality ESTs assembled using high-quality, vector-trimmed sequence only. Default settings were used except minimum overlap was 40 bp and 95% identity (default is 30 bp, 75% identity).

[iii] High-quality ESTs assembled using high- and low-quality, vector-trimmed sequence, 3′ and reductant 5′ ESTs were included (these were treated as independent clone sequences to avoid error resulting from manual clone picking). Default settings were used except minimum overlap was 40 bp. These assembly results were used for all analyses in this study, except where noted.

[iv] EST, expressed sequence tag.