MELOGEN: an EST database for melon functional genomics

BMC Genomics

Table 5 Localization of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) with respect to putative initiation and termination codons in the melon sequence dataset*

	Dinucleotide repeats		Trinucleotide repeats		Tetranucleotide repeats		All SSRs analyzed
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
5'-UTR	65	82.3%	121	51.7%	18	62.1%	204	59.6%
ORF	0	0.0%	99	42.3%	2	6.9%	101	29.5%
3'-UTR	13	16.5%	13	5.6%	9	31.0%	35	10.2%
Other^†	1	1.3%	1	0.4%	0	0.0%	2	0.6%
Total	79	100.0%	234	100.0%	29	100.0%	342	100%

*Only full length melon unigenes were used for this analysis. Full length unigenes were automatically selected by checking the presence of the start codon by comparison of the 5'-terminal region of the unigene with the corresponding Arabidopsis gene used for annotation. ^†Imprecise localization of the SSR with respect to putative initiation or termination codons.

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