Figure 3

UTR size and apportionment in P. falciparum. A) Distribution of UTR sizes predicted from cohort of Northern blot data for 105 genes (bin size 250 bp). B) and C) Scatterplots comparing the size of ORF against the size of predicted UTR (B, R² = 0.04) and the full length transcript (C, R² = 0.88) for this cohort of genes. D) Scatterplot comparing the UTR sizes predicted from Northern blots and EST database sources. Only genes for which both 5′ and 3′ EST data was available are plotted (n = 44, R² = 0.02). E) Box and whisker plot representing predicted apportionment to the 5′ UTR. The two plots represent either an analysis of EST data alone (n = 44 genes, EST) or a triage of this dataset (tEST). The tEST dataset (n = 19) represents only those 3′ EST that terminate with a consensus polyadenylation site.