Gene discovery in Triatoma infestans

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Summary of T. infestans ESTs.

Description	Number	%
Total number of clones sequenced	1881	100
High quality ESTs	826^a	44
Contigs	119
Singlets	352
Assembled Unique sequences (AUS)	471	25
AUS with positive hits	185^b	39
BLASTX NR protein database	176
InterProScan	20
AUS with no hits	286	61
AUS with EC numbers	44	26
AUS GO annotated	123	26

^aESTs deposited in GenBank ESTs database with accession numbers [GenBank:HO762759 to GenBank:HO763584]. ^bSee Additional file 2: Table S2 for hit details.

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