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Table 1 A comparison of EST to gene assignment methods

From: A novel method of differential gene expression analysis using multiple cDNA libraries applied to the identification of tumour endothelial genes

 

Endothelial EST pool count

ESTs unambiguously assigned to a gene

ESTs assigned to more than 1 gene

% success rate for the total pool

Huminiecki and Bicknell [8]

11,117

5,889

5,228

53

Method described here

11,117

10,153

0

91

  1. A comparison of the two EST to gene assignment methods using the same data. The new method of EST to gene assignment improved accuracy enabling a higher percentage of ESTs to be unambiguously assigned compared to the Huminiecki and Bicknell method [8].