Genome-wide identification of transcriptional start sites in the haloarchaeon Haloferax volcanii based on differential RNA-Seq (dRNA-Seq)

Table 1 Classification of primary transcriptional start sites

Transcriptional start sites (TSSs)	Chr	pHV1	pHV3	pHV4	∑	Percent
All	3248	149	510	842	4749
Forward	1646	69	263	414	2392	50
Reverse	1602	80	247	428	2357	50
Protein-coding gene TSSs	1421	32	170	228	1851
Leaderless	1068	19	106	136	1329	72
With leader	353	13	64	92	522	28
Known RNAs^a	92	2	6	6	106
Novel gene TSSs	1735	115	334	608	2792
Intergenic	239	14	57	85	395	14
Antisense (aTSS)	764	61	126	293	1244	45
Internal (iTSS)	732	40	151	230	1153	41

^avalidated sRNAs prepublished in Heyer et al., 2012, as well as tRNAs, rRNAs, 7S RNA, RNAse P RNA, and crRNAs (annotations taken from HaloLex)
The numbers of all transcription start sites and that of the three major classes are shown in bold

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