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Table 3 Results of BLAST analysis for 100 orphan tags

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

Number of matched basepairs

No. of orphan tags mapped to human gene sequences

Accumulated percentage in novel gene identification

No. of clusters identified

21

2

2%

2

20

1

3%

1

19

1

4%

3

18

8

12%

10

17

5

17%

23

≥ 17*

9

9%

17

  1. * No. of tags have all 17 bps in the tag region matched to a human gene sequence.
Summary of the number of orphan tags by the number of basepairs matched to a human gene sequence.