TABLE 1.
SUMMARY OF ESTs
| Biological Process | Liver Expression Library | Brain-Minus-Liver Library | Liver-Minus-Brain Library | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequences | Genes | Sequences | Genes | Sequences | Genes | |
| Apoptosis | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Cell growth and/or maintenance | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Immune response | 75 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 16 |
| Metabolism, energy pathways | 31 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 61 | 32 |
| Process unknown | 27 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Protein metabolism | 61 | 41 | 3 | 3 | 56 | 19 |
| Regulation of nucleobase, nucleoside, nucleotide, and nucleic acid metabolism | 11 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 |
| Signal transduction; cell communication | 4 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 5 |
| Transport | 99 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 33 | 15 |
| Unclassified | 27 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 9 |
| Unknown | 901 | 280 | 333 | |||
| Total | 1,237 | 108 | 350 | 46 | 639 | 104 |