Analysis of nucleosome positioning landscapes enables gene discovery in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Table 1 Characteristics of the 231 putative novel genes in comparison with annotated P. falciparum genes

	Average RNA-seq coverage	Average Poly-seq coverage	Average GC%	Average length (bp)	Avgerage Nuc coverage (B1)	Average Nuc coverage (B2)	Average H2A.z coverage	Average H3K36me3 coverage	Average H3K4me3 coverage	n
Exon	58	30	27	949	35	77	20	41	84	14,795
Gene	75	34	23	2,494	37	69	17	50	83	5,680
Intergenic^a	3	7	13	1,000	8	37	31	10	22	1,565
Published lncRNA [17, 33–36]	10	7	15	1,114	12	47	35	16	37	986
Predicted genes (B1)	13	4	18	934	22	62	29	25	63	97
Predicted genes (B2)	9	5	16	1,010	17	62	35	18	49	201
All predicted genes (B1 + B2)	8	4	16	1,004	17	62	34	19	50	231

^aIntergenic regions were defined as the middle 1 kb of all non-coding regions longer than 1,500 bp that do not overlap with annotated genes, predicted genes, or previously identified lncRNAs

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