Table 3

Fractional coverage of genomes

Model organism

Number of sequences

Fractional coverage


Homo sapiens

27,960

0.82

Escerichia coli

4,237

0.70

Arabidopsis thaliana

26,207

0.75

Caenorhabditis elegans

26,032

0.64

Drosophila melanogaster

19,178

0.74


The fraction of sequences from different model organisms that can be functionally classified by PhyloFacts to one of the books in the resource, based on BLAST search against PhyloFacts training sequences, using an E-value cutoff of 0.001.

Krishnamurthy et al. Genome Biology 2006 7:R83   doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-9-r83

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