Creating a honey bee consensus gene set

Table 7 Comparison of gene prediction sets with spliced EST alignments

	GLEAN	Drosophila Ortholog	Ensembl	Evolutionary Conserved Core	Fgenesh	NCBI
Unique predicted donor/acceptor sites	54,818	21,254	101,054	49,587	80,889	61,107
Internal EST donor/acceptor sites	3,255	1,467	3,157	2,504	3,227	3,233
Perfect matches to EST donor/acceptor site	2,985	1,354	2,861	2,094	2,812	2,857
Perfect matches per internal EST donor/acceptor site	0.92	0.92	0.91	0.84	0.87	0.88
Perfect matches per predicted donor/acceptor site	0.059	0.069	0.031	0.042	0.035	0.047
Donor match	3,083	1,369	2,909	2,230	3,071	3,008
Acceptor match	3,063	1,392	2,932	2,219	3,030	2,940

'Predicted donor/acceptor sites' are splice sites within predicted gene models. 'Internal EST donor/acceptor sites' are EST splice sites located between start and termination codons of predicted genes. EST, expressed sequence tag.

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