Figure 3

Mapping ESTs to proteins through the substring relation. Often, a nucleic acid sequence is a fragment of a longer DNA sequence that contains a coding region. We compared all mouse nucleic acid sequences to each other and studied the distribution of (minimal) distances from coding regions. The vast majority of fragments (250,000) are located at the beginning of a coding region of a longer DNA sequence. In addition, there is a substantial number of ESTs that are located in the proximity of a coding region.