Table 1 Summary of the Blast results used for annotation of the head, skin and GI-tract assembly

Total number of contigs

65,530

38,426

90,676

Blastx refseq protein zebrafish

27,312

12,845

42,040

Blastx vertebrate swissprot db

3,560

1,141

5,209

Blastx protein bony fish db

6,791

9,166

4,559

Percentage of contigs with annotation

57 %

60 %

57 %

Additional blast matches to non-annotated ESTs (%)

11,418 (17 %)

12,354 (32 %)

14,460 (13 %)

Percentage of contigs with no database match

26 %

8 %

30 %