Figure 3From: Hundreds of putatively functional small open reading frames in Drosophila Cumulative size distributions of smORFs with conserved start and stop codons. (a, b) Size distributions (represented as cumulative graphs) for the putative D. melanogaster smORFs with tBLASTn E-value < 1 × 10-3 (a) or < 0.05 (b), and conserved, in-frame start and stop codons in D. pseudoobscura (SS), and their respective controls composed of reverse stop-to-start control 'smORFs' passing the same filters. The candidate 'real' smORF distributions are very different from the controls representing random short DNA sequences. For a statistical analysis of the differences between these distributions, see Additional file 1.Back to article page