Table 3. Estimates of percentage BAC gene space sampled.

Estimated % Gene Space Sampled	Pool A*	Pool B*	Pool C*	Pool D*
Predicted Gene Estimates	77%	79%	62%	71%
RefSeq Gene Estimates	71%	77%	68%	66%
Masked Sanger EST contigs and singletons	33%	36%	34%	31%
(25,781 sequences, 15 Mb)
Masked 454 transcriptome	36%	35%	40%	47%
(70,729 sequences, 69 Mb)

^*Pool A, B, C and D (∼44 BAC/pool) are equimolar pools representing ∼10 megabases of the oil palm genome.