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 |
[i] Of the 319 micro-exons found using the spliced alignment correction procedure, 224 were previously unknown.