Table 2.

Coverage of the Pfam database




Number of genomes

Mean coverage (%)

Highest coverage (%)

Lowest coverage (%)
Eukaryota 17 64 75 Arabidopsis thaliana 49 Plasmodium falciparum
Bacteria 157 76 96 Buchnera apidicola 44 Rhodospirellula baltica
Archae
19
66
79 Pyrococcus abyssi
40 Aeropyrum pernix

[i] The coverage of a complete proteome is the number of its proteins (in percent) that contain one or more Pfam domain(s). The data have been extracted from the Pfam Web site (December 2004).