Table 1.

The number of consensus cattle gene pairs in the NCBI and Ensembl cattle genome databases

Type of match	Number of pairs†	Unique matches‡
Same gene coordinates	2,109	2,109
Gene symbol	6,479	5,187
Entrez gene ID	16,163	8,800
Gene product name	7,026	71
E.C. number	1,360	6
Manual*	N.A.	27
Total	33,137	16,200
Not matched	2,276	2,276

^†The total number of matches using each criterion; one-to-one match was not assumed.

^‡Number in each row is sequential for the match criteria given under "number of pairs", in addition to the matches for the criteria immediately above; only one-to-one matches were considered.

*Manually matched because the consensus genes were classified into different 'gene type' (e.g. protein coding, pseudogene, tRNA and miscellaneous RNA) in the NCBI and Ensembl gene models.