Table 1.

Length vs. Number of Pairwise Alignments (Rat v. 3.1)

Seed length (bp)
# Pairwise
>250 1,283,258
>1000 532,720
>5000 45,835
>10,000 4798
>20,000
171

[i] Seed length determined after masking of common rat repeats (Repeatmasker June 2003 version).