Characterization of the Zoarces viviparus liver transcriptome using massively parallel pyrosequencing

BMC Genomics

Table 1 A summary of the assembled transcripts

	Contigs	Singlets	Total
Number of sequences	36,110	17,347	53,457
Number of bases	14,250,156	4,050,061	18,300,217
Average length (bases)	395	233	342
Max length (bases)	3,401	608	3,401
GC-content	46.8%	43.5%	46.1%
Average coverage	3.46	1	2.67
Found in Uniprot^a	73.4%	69.8%	72.2%
Found in at least one of the five available fish genomes^{a, b}	89.2%	87.3%	88.6%

^a Using a BLAST E-value cut-off of 10^-5
^b Gasterosteus aculeatus, Tetraodon nigroviridis, Takifugu rubripes, Oryzias latipes and Danio rerio.

ISSN: 1471-2164