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Table 1 Summary of the analysis of expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences from a cDNA library prepared from a mixed stage unstressed culture of the fast desiccation strategist nematode Panagrolaimus superbus

From: A molecular analysis of desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the anhydrobiotic nematode Panagrolaimus superbus using expressed sequenced tags

Number of raw sequences

9,216

Number of high quality sequences

7,606

Average length of high quality EST sequences

425 ± 193

Total number of contigs

1,079

Total number of singletons

2,958

Number of putative bacterial contaminant sequences

28

Number of rRNA gene consensus sequences

27

Number of mtDNA consensus sequences

10

Number of putative unigenes (excluding bacterial contaminants and rRNA genes, but including the mtDNA genes)

3,982

Number of unigenes with significant hits1 to the NemPep4+2, WormPep3 and NR4 combined database

1,923

Number of unigenes with unique hits to the NR database, but not to NemPep4 or WormPep

100

Number of unigenes with no significant BLAST hits

2,059 (51.7%)

  1. 1Blast cutoff value was 1e-4
  2. 2 http://www.nematodes.org/
  3. 3 http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/C_elegans/WORMBASE/current/wormpep.shtml
  4. 4 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/blast_databases.shtml