Analysis and functional annotation of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from multiple tissues of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

Table 2 Summary of ESTs from oil palm

	Number	%
Total ESTs sequenced	16149	-
Number of EST sequences with readable sequence	14537^a	-
Redundant sequences	8073	-
Number of tentatively unique genes (TUGs)	8593	-
Number of unique sequences (TUSs, singletons)	6464	75.2^b
Number of tentatively unique contigs (TUCs)	2129	24.8^b
TUGs with significant matches	6008	69.9^b
TUGs with non-significant matches	2585	30.1^b

^aThis number consists of 4943 ESTs from root, 1854 from shoot apical meristem, 2623 from mature flower, 2807 from young flower, 1723 from suspension cell culture and 588 from zygotic embryo,
^bPercentage of TUGs.

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