Table 1.
Characteristics of the 231 putative novel genes in comparison with annotated P. falciparum genes
| Average RNA-seq coverage | Average Poly-seq coverage | Average GC% | Average length (bp) | Avgerage Nuc coverage (B1) | Average Nuc coverage (B2) | Average H2A.z coverage | Average H3K36me3 coverage | Average H3K4me3 coverage | n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exon | 58 | 30 | 27 | 949 | 35 | 77 | 20 | 41 | 84 | 14,795 |
| Gene | 75 | 34 | 23 | 2,494 | 37 | 69 | 17 | 50 | 83 | 5,680 |
| Intergenica | 3 | 7 | 13 | 1,000 | 8 | 37 | 31 | 10 | 22 | 1,565 |
| Published lncRNA [17, 33–36] | 10 | 7 | 15 | 1,114 | 12 | 47 | 35 | 16 | 37 | 986 |
| Predicted genes (B1) | 13 | 4 | 18 | 934 | 22 | 62 | 29 | 25 | 63 | 97 |
| Predicted genes (B2) | 9 | 5 | 16 | 1,010 | 17 | 62 | 35 | 18 | 49 | 201 |
| All predicted genes (B1 + B2) | 8 | 4 | 16 | 1,004 | 17 | 62 | 34 | 19 | 50 | 231 |
aIntergenic regions were defined as the middle 1 kb of all non-coding regions longer than 1,500 bp that do not overlap with annotated genes, predicted genes, or previously identified lncRNAs