Table 5.
BLAST matches in the other genomes and databases (E-value < 0.01)
| Genome or database | Number of hits | fraction |
| Human EST library | 12,021 | 70% |
| Human cDNA library | 7,546 | 44% |
| Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) | 15,757 | 92% |
| Macaque cDNA library | 5,955 | 35% |
| Mouse genome | 8,011 | 47% |
| Mouse EST library | 7,546 | 44% |
| Rat genome | 7,691 | 45% |
| * Rodents: mouse ∪ rat | 9,184 | 53% |
| Dog (Canis familiaris,) partial genome | 7,924 | 46% |
| Chicken (Gallus gallus) | 3,600 | 21% |
| Frog (Xenopus tropicalis) | 2,279 | 13% |
| Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) | 2,254 | 13% |
| Green spotted pufferfish (Tetraodon nigroviridis) | 2,069 | 12% |
| ** Pufferfish: Takifugu rubripes ∪ Tetraodon nigroviridis | 2867 | 17% |
| Sea squirt (Ciona intestinalis) | 607 | 4% |
| Noncoding RNA Databases | ||
| Rfam | 252 | 1% |
| RNAdb | 1,995 | 12% |
| mirBase | 138 | 1% |
| NONCODE | 379 | 2% |
| *** Rfam ∪ RNAdb ∪ mirBase ∪ NONCODE | 2,637 | 15% |
| Total number of TARs reported by Bertone et al. | 17,198 |
* number of TARs that have hits in either mouse or rat genome, The symbol ∪ represents the union of two sets
** number of TARs that have hits in either species of pufferfish
*** number of TARs that have hits in either of the noncoding RNA database