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Table 2 Characteristics of the sets of sequences from different taxa and groups of organisms

From: A method for identifying alternative or cryptic donor splice sites within gene and mRNA sequences. Comparisons among sequences from vertebrates, echinoderms and other groups

Sequence Set1

# Sequences

# Positive Sites

# Negative Sites

Avg. # exons per gene

Avg. length (kb)

Vertebrate

570

2079

149207

3.65

5.0

Purpuratus Model

292

2845

1142532

9.74

105.0

Vertebrate

2759

8599

1539898

3.12

10.3

Purpuratus

159

1714

684015

10.78

122.8

Protostome

1866

3303

361368

1.77

3.7

Experimentally

     

Validated Echinoderm sequences

55

62

6228

1.13

2.2

  1. 1See Additional file 2, 3, and 4 for accession numbers of the sequences