Table 1 Data sets used in the evaluation of our heuristic extension algorithm, with organism indicating the starting organism, related organisms indicating the related model organisms that BLAST is applied to, library indicating the total number of libraries, size indicating the total number of bases in all the reads after quality trimming, and reference indicating the publication that describes the libraries

S. pombe

S. cerevisiae

32

17 G

[12]

N. crassa

D. melanogaster

D. pseudoobscura

13

9.6 G

[37]

A. gambiae

H. sapiens

S. boliviensis

4

16 G

[38]

M. musculus

A. thaliana

A. lyrata

5

16 G

[39]

O. sativa

L. sericata

D. melanogaster

9

4.6 G

[23]

H. glaber

H. sapiens

13

61 G

[24]

C. sociabilis

H. sapiens

10

66 G

[25]

C. arietinum

A. thaliana

3

8.6 G

[26]

M. albus

A. thaliana

12

5.5 G

New data

M. siculus

A. thaliana

12

5.4 G

New data