Table 4.

Distribution of annotated ESTs among MIPS functional categories.

Functional category	RindPdigS	RindPdig24	A. thaliana
Metabolism	37.6	27.7	17.3
Energy	3.6	5.5	1.6
Storage protein	0.0	0.1	0.2
Cell cycle and DNA processing	2.4	4.2	5.3
Transcription	1.8	6.0	9.4
Protein synthesis	4.2	9.6	4.7
Protein fate (folding, modification, destination)	12.7	14.7	10.9
Protein with binding function or cofactor requirement	26.7	32.3	24.7
Regulation of metabolism and protein function	0.6	2.9	2.1
Cellular transport, transport facilitation and transport routes	20.0	13.7	8.5
Cellular communication/Signal transduction mechanism	2.4	3.5	4.5
Cell rescue, defense and virulence	12.7	10.5	5.0
Interaction with the environment	14.5	10.5	5.8
Systemic interaction with the environment	6.1	3.3	2.7
Transposable elements, viral and plasmid proteins	0.0	0.1	0.3
Cell fate	1.8	1.9	1.6
Development (systemic)	3.0	3.8	3.7
Biogenesis of cellular components	2.4	4.5	5.5
Cell type differentiation	1.2	0.9	0.8
Tissue differentiation	0.6	0.9	0.3
Organ differentiation	1.2	1.0	0.9
Subcellular localization	46.7	50.5	46.6
Cell type localization	0.6	0.1	0.5
Tissue localization	0.6	0.3	0.1
Organ localization	1.2	0.1	0.1
Unclassified proteins	18.8	16.0	28.1