Table 2 Statistics of functional annotation of transcripts

a) Protein-coding genes

Similar to known proteins

8,834

48.57%

Conserved hypothetical proteins

6,356

34.95%

Hypothetical proteins (ORF > = 80aa)

819

4.50%

Subtotal

16,009

88.06%

b) Non-coding RNA genes

Putative long ncRNAs

2,158

11.87%

tRNA genes

5 (12)^a,b

0.06%

Pseudo tRNA genes

2

0.01%

rRNA genes

6

0.03%

Subtotal

2,171 (20)^a

11.94%

Total number of assembled transcripts

18,180 (18,187)^a

100%