Table 2.

Summary of primer statistics for the updated PrimerBank database

	Human	Mouse	Both species
Number of newly designed primer pairs	45 751	49 427	95 178
Number of previous primer pairs	83 941	69 459	1 53 400
Total number of primer pairs designed	1 29 692	1 18 886	2 48 578
Number of currently annotated protein-coding genes	18 932	20 305	39 237
Number of genes represented by new primers	17 076	18 086	35 162
Number of genes represented by previous primers	16 383	17 038	33 421
Number of genes represented by all primers	17 973	18 955	36 928