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. 2009 Dec 30;10:641. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-641

Table 1.

Summary of RNA-Seq coverage data

Statistics 10403S replicate1 10403S replicate 2 ΔsigB replicate 1 ΔsigB replicate 2
Reads that aligned uniquely with no mismatches (U0) 2,290,717 3,111,726 2,320,447 3,866,492
Reads that aligned uniquely with 1 mismatch (U1) 632,173 470,865 544,932 745,360
Reads that aligned uniquely with 2 mismatches (U2) 234,886 110,882 173,903 181,684
USUM = U0 + U1 + U2 3,157,776 3,693,473 3,039,282 4,793,536
Reads that aligned at more than one location (reads not used; R) 23,485 4,832 38,489 16,103
Reads that did not align to the pseudochromosome (NM) 299,034 533,462 222,945 427,109
Total number of reads in the sample (Total = USUM + R +NM) 3,480,295 4,231,767 3,300,716 5,236,748
Percentage of unique alignments, i.e. 100*(USUM)/Total 90.73 87.28 92.08 91.54
Reads that aligned to the 16S rRNA gene (16S) 490,381 482,845 434,263 760,863
Reads that aligned to the 23S rRNA gene (23S) 2,160,538 1,860,817 2,436,325 3,138,329
Reads that aligned to the 16S and 23S rRNA genes (16S + 23S) 2,650,919 2,919,170 2,295,080 3,899,192
Percentage of all reads that aligned to 16S and 23S rRNA genes 83.9 79 75.5 81.3
UTOTAL = USUM - (16S + 23S) 506,857 774,303 744,202 894,344
Normalization factor (fnorm = 894,344/UTOTAL)a 1.765 1.155 1.202 1

aThis indicates the factor that was used for normalization of replicates