A method for identifying alternative or cryptic donor splice sites within gene and mRNA sequences. Comparisons among sequences from vertebrates, echinoderms and other groups

Table 2 Characteristics of the sets of sequences from different taxa and groups of organisms

Sequence Set¹	# Sequences	# Positive Sites	# Negative Sites	Avg. # exons per gene	Avg. length (kb)
Vertebrate	570	2079	149207	3.65	5.0
Purpuratus Model	292	2845	1142532	9.74	105.0
Vertebrate	2759	8599	1539898	3.12	10.3
Purpuratus	159	1714	684015	10.78	122.8
Protostome	1866	3303	361368	1.77	3.7
Experimentally
Validated Echinoderm sequences	55	62	6228	1.13	2.2

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