Generation and analysis of a 29,745 unique Expressed Sequence Tags from the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) assembled into a publicly accessible database: the GigasDatabase

Table 3 BlastX searches and contig analysis for the complete collection of oyster contigs, based on GigasDatabase EST clustering.

Number of unique sequences	29745
Number of unique sequences with BlastX hits	12790
Percentage of unique sequences with BlastX hits	43%
Number of contigs containing:
2 ESTs	4208
3 ESTs	1588
4 ESTs	794
5 ESTs	397
> 6 ESTs	873

ISSN: 1471-2164