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Table 2 The detailed results of our testing on the Phalaenopsis ESTs data with different parameters

From: An efficient RNA interference screening strategy for gene functional analysis

Parameters

d T  = 3,d N  = 5,L = 21

d T  = 4,d N  = 5,L = 21

d T  = 4,d N  = 6,L = 21

Number of enumerated subsequences

191,087

191,087

191,087

Number of subsequences (after Far_neighbor and powerful subsequence examination)

173,106

188,889

117,203

Number of qualified siRNAs

100,890

106,188

6,443

Number of non-redundant qualified siRNAs

487

2,147

352

Average number of target genes of a qualified siRNA

1.0583

1.1163

1.0852

Number of qualified siRNAs (number of target gene > 1)

5,565

10,863

491

Average number of target genes of qualified siRNAs (number of target gene > 1)

2.0577

2.1370

2.1181

Number of selected siRNAs in first round analysis

142

94

162

Number of candidate-genes examined in first round analysis

229

229

227

Average examination frequency of each candidate-gene

1.153

1.170

1.110

  1. From these result we can see that the number of qualified siRNA has important influence on the number of used siRNAs in first round analysis.