Table 4.
# | Functional categories | Biological process | # Clusters | % Cluster | # ESTs | % ESTs |
1 | DNA replication & binding | DNA replication | 4 | 0.79 | 8 | 0.45 |
DNA binding | 4 | |||||
2 | Transcription | Transcription process | 2 | 1.47 | 16 | 0.90 |
Regulation of transcription | 8 | |||||
Chromatine assembly and remodelling | 5 | |||||
3 | Translation | Translation | 70 | 8.06 | 363 | 20.51 |
Translation initiation | 4 | |||||
Translation elongation | 7 | |||||
Translation termination | 1 | |||||
4 | Transport | Electron transport | 8 | 1.97 | 32 | 1.81 |
Calcium ion transport | 2 | |||||
Intracellular protein transport | 4 | |||||
Transport | 6 | |||||
5 | Metabolic processes | Amino acid metabolic process | 2 | 4.03 | 73 | 4.12 |
Carbohydrate metabolic process | 13 | |||||
Fatty acid biosynthetic process | 3 | |||||
Various metabolic process | 23 | |||||
6 | Proteolysis, protein folding and modification | Proteolysis | 16 | 3.24 | 48 | 2.71 |
Protein modification and binding | 9 | |||||
Protein folding | 8 | |||||
7 | Striated muscle contraction | Contraction | 26 | 3.54 | 95 | 5.37 |
Calcium binding | 10 | |||||
8 | Signal transduction | 8 | 0.79 | 9 | 0.51 | |
9 | Structural constituent of cuticle | 14 | 1.38 | 30 | 1.69 | |
10 | Cell growth, proliferation and adhesion | 9 | 0.88 | 12 | 0.68 | |
11 | Ion Binding | 5 | 0.49 | 5 | 0.28 | |
12 | Hypotetical protein | 10 | 0.98 | 16 | 0.90 | |
13 | Mitochondrial genes | 14 | 1.38 | 174 | 9.83 | |
14 | Ribosomal RNA gene (18S and 28S) | 14 | 1.38 | 29 | 1.64 | |
15 | Without similarity | 708 | 69.62 | 860 | 48.59 | |
TOTAL | 1017 | 100.00 | 1770 | 100.00 |
The last four columns of the Table show respectively number and percentage of clusters and ESTs belonging to each functional category.