Table 1

Relationship of ratios of conserved domains to predicted number of genes in genome

SMART database
 Proteome Analysis Database

Organism
 Average ratio of genes genes with CD in organism to total genes with CD in the five species
 Sum of predicted genes for all five species
 Product
 Average ratio of genes genes with CD in organism to total genes with CD in the five species
 Sum of predicted genes for all five species
 Product
 Predicted number of genes in genome
H. sapiens
 0.386
 100,500
 38,793
 0.314
 100,500
 31,557
 35,000
D. melanogaster
 0.172
 100,500
 17,286
 0.185
 100,500
 18,592.5
 14,100
A. thaliana
 0.283
 100,500
 28,441.5
 0.252
 100,500
 25,326
 26,000
C. elegans
 0.158
 100,500
 15,879
 0.191
 100,500
 19,195.5
 19,100
S. cerevisiae
 0.076
 100,500
 7,638
 0.058
 100,500
 5,829
 6,300

Malek Genome Biology 2001 2:research0039.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-9-research0039