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Table 3 Summary of the S. hermonthica EST sequence analysis

From: A full-length enriched cDNA library and expressed sequence tag analysis of the parasitic weed, Striga hermonthica

Group

Records

Number of independent clones

37,710

Number of raw sequences

75,330

Number of high quality sequences

67,814

Number of unigenes

17,137

   singletons

6,818

   contigs

10,319

Average unigene length

775.3 bp

Minimum unigene length

101 bp

Maximum unigene length

3,051 bp

Average number of ESTs per unigene

2.9

Maximum number of ESTs per contig

106

Number of superunigenes

12,272

   with more than one unigene

2,203

   with one unigene

10,069

Number of putative SNPs (pSNPs)

9,299

Number of putative SSRs (pSSRs)

1,445