Table 1

Numbers of bidirectional transcript pairs per chromosome and their lengths

Chromosome

Number of sense-antisense transcript pairs

Number of non-antisense transcript pairs

Length of chromosome (Mb)

1

215

30

51.4

2

130

8

43.8

3

162

52

47.3

4

109

11

36.6

5

62

17

33.8

6

63

24

35.4

7

54

7

33.1

8

64

7

33.6

9

45

8

27.2

10

43

4

23.7

11

46

34

33.6

12

112

59

31.2

Osato et al. Genome Biology 2003 5:R5