Table 2 Characteristics of barley genes and transcripts in BaRTv1.0. Percentages given are of total number of genes or transcripts

Number of genes

60,444

Number of predicted transcripts

177,240

Single exon genes

25,719 (43%)

Multi exon genes

34,725 (57%)

Single transcript genes

39,534 (65%)

Single exon transcripts

27,754 (16%)

Multi-Exon transcripts

149,486 (84%)

Number of Multi-exonic genes with alternative transcript variants

20910 (60%)

Mean number of transcripts per gene

2.93

Number of distinct exons

466,247

Mean number of distinct exons per gene

7.7

Mean transcript locus size (first to last exon) (nt)

5,633

Mean exon size (nt)

573