Table 2.

Summary of Computational Screening for Novel ncRNA Candidates


Procedures for computational screening

No. of remaining clones
Defined as Non-protein-coding TU 15,815
No homologies to other known protein sequences (BLASTX) 12,382
Could be aligned to mouse genome sequence (identity >90%, length >90%) 11,652
CDS prediction could not be made by GENSCAN (10 kb around mapped region)
4,280