Table 4.

Summary of the assignment of GO domains to contigs

tissue	tissue specific contigs assigned with GO terms						number of GO terms
	number of contigs (number with τ ≥ 0.8)	mean τ	biological process	molecular function	cellular component	total GO terms	unique to that tissue (number with τ ≥ 0.8)
brain	517 (32)	0.73	1,020	327	262	1,609	114 (7)
heart	141 (43)	0.78	295	101	59	455	32 (18)
kidney	337 (18)	0.72	451	139	119	709	58 (8)
liver	219 (22)	0.75	260	114	56	430	49 (1)
muscle	265 (36)	0.75	307	75	70	452	44 (5)
pancreas	223 (42)	0.75	313	104	48	465	46 (24)
skin	433 (125)	0.77	593	126	114	833	67 (11)
testes	647 (54)	0.73	677	131	133	941	117 (10)
sum	2,782 (372)	0.75	3,916	1,117	861	5,894	527 (84)
all tissues	5,906	0.29	4,550	1,189	1,049	6,788	1,654

Contigs were assigned into the three GO domains (biological process, molecular function and cellular component) through 'is_a' pedigree mapping. The number of unique GO terms is also reported for each tissue