A comparative analysis of the information content in long and short SAGE libraries

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Summary of SAGE tags for four SAGE libraries

Libraries*	L_AD	L_Ctrl	S_AD	S_Ctrl
	(T_AD**)	(T_Ctrl)
Unique tags	34,475 (28,804)	30,581 (25,145)	25,140	23,126
No. total tag counts	80,292	75,018	78,126	70,456
No. SAGE tags	14,643 (24,129)	11,646 (20,640)	21,367	19,787
mapped to UNIGENE
No. orphan tags	19,832(4,675)	18,935(4,505)	3,773	3,339

* Library abbreviation is as the following: long SAGE AD (L_AD), tSAGE AD (T_AD),LongSAGE control (L_Ctrl), tSAGE control (T_Ctrl), ShortSAGE AD (S_AD);ShortSAGE control (S_Ctrl).
** The information of truncated long SAGE (tSAGE) libraries for AD and control are listed in the parenthesis.

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