Table 1.

P. ovis EST analysis and breakdown of processing stages

Sequence Description	Number of ESTs
cDNA Library 1	1574
cDNA Library 2	484
Total ESTs	2058
Removal of low quality sequences	-153
Total remaining ESTs	1905
CAP3 Contigs	255
Singletons	1290
Total ESTs	1545
Significant BLAST hits	961
No or non-significant BLAST hit	584

Summary of P. ovis EST processing steps and results of BLAST search.