Table 1

Summary of data obtained from the LongSAGE libraries


LongSAGE library



T33
T65
T90
L33
L65
L90

Total tags1
50,450
53,927
53,761
53,104
54,483
51,188
Unique tags2
25,738
24,655
22,035
24,408
24,829
22,464
Unique tags/total tags (%)3
51.0
45.7
41.0
46.0
45.6
43.9
Tags/clone
23.4
26.5
31.7
25.97
24.8
25.9
Average GC content4
45.16
50.02
44.56
47.24
47.15
46.20
Remaining total tags5
32,722 (64.8)
37,058 (68.6)
40,074 (74.5)
37,135 (69.8)
37,948 (69.6)
36,596 (71.4)
Remaining unique tags6
8,081
7,786
8,348
8,439
8,294
7,872
Unmatched tags7
2,458 (30.4%)
2,377 (30.5%)
2,621 (31.4%)
2,362 (28.0%)
2,740 (33.0%)
2,513 (31.9%)
Matched tags8
5,623 (69.6%)
5,409 (69.5%)
5,727 (68.6%)
6,077 (72.0%)
5,554 (67%)
5,359 (68.1%)
Single match9
5,437 (96.7%)
5,249 (96.9%)
5,550 (97%)
5,887 (97%)
5,358 (96.8%)
5,163 (96.7%)
Multiple matches10
188 (3.3%)
169 (3.1%)
174 (3.0%)
185 (3.0%)
175 (3.2%)
176 (3.3%)

1Total tags were obtained in each library. LongSAGE tags containing wildcard characters not in {A, C, G, T} were discarded. 2Unique tags were obtained in each library. 3The differences in accrual rates (the ratio of unique tags to total tags) indicate that the number of genes expressed regularly changed during myogenesis. 4For an explanation of this value, in the context of the quality of a SAGE library, see Margulies et al. [31]. 5The total tags remaining in each library after eliminating the unique tags with a frequency <2 in all six libraries. The percentage of non-singleton tags is shown in parentheses. 6The unique tags remaining in each library after eliminating the unique tags with a frequency <2 in all six libraries. 7Unique tags unmatched with any known sequence. The values in parentheses indicate the percentage of unique tags in the total. 8Unique tags that correspond to UniGene entries. The values in parentheses indicate the percentage of unique tags in the total. 9Unique tags matched with a single UniGene sequence. 10Unique tags matched with more than one UniGene sequence. T, Tongcheng; L, Landrace; 33, 65 and 90 refer to days post coitus.

Tang et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R115   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-6-r115