Fig. 4.

Protein-length accuracy of the C. briggsae gene models relative to reciprocal BLAST matches in C. elegans N2 protein sequences. The binned counts of protein-length accuracy values for both sets of QX1410 gene models (automated and curated) and the AF16 gene models are shown. We calculated the percent protein-length difference of each QX1410 gene model relative to their best reciprocal BLAST hit found in the N2 genome. We performed the same calculation for every gene in the AF16 (WS280) genome. A percent difference value of zero represents a C. briggsae gene with a protein length that perfectly matches its best reciprocal hit in the N2 genome. A percent difference value of 1 represents a C. briggsae gene with a protein length that is 1% shorter or longer than its best reciprocal hit in the N2 genome and is placed under the bin labeled ‘0.1-5’. The total number of shared genes compared in this BLAST analysis is 13,469