Table 1.

Summary of EST data analysis

Total number of species	78
Number of Nematode species	64
Number of Trematode species	7
Number of Cestode species	7
Total number of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) analysed	870,223
Total number of Unigenes (contigs + singletons)	303,657
Total number of putative peptides	245,814
Total number of excretory/secretory (ES) proteins predicted	18,992
Total number of ES proteins with annotation	11,390
Total number of ES proteins verified with experimentally derived helminth ES proteins	4,260