Table 1.
The comparison of piRBase and other piRNA databases
| piRBase | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | piRNABank | piRNAQuest | IsopiRBankc | Release v1.0 | Release v2.0 |
| Human | 35 356 | 41 749 | 4 564 080 | 32 826 | 8 438 265 |
| Mouse | 55 359 | 890 078 | 38 093 003 | 51 664 769 | 68 054 594 |
| Rat | 46 444 | 66 758 | 63 182 | 4 081 625 | |
| D. melanogaster | 44 417a | 15 058 093 | 21 027 419 | 41 950 613 | |
| C. elegans | 28 219 | 28 219 | |||
| Zebrafish | 6 367 811 | 1 330 692 | 1 330 692 | ||
| Chicken | 508 437 | 1 716 795 | |||
| X. tropicalis | 6 142 904 | 6 142 904 | |||
| Silkworm | 1 174 963 | 1 253 987 | |||
| Starlet sea anemone | 11 811 | ||||
| Cow | 19 528 252 | ||||
| Crab-eating macaque | 5 819 946 | ||||
| Rhesus | 6 514 | ||||
| Marmoset | 8 311 210 | ||||
| Sea hare | 499 | ||||
| Tree shrew | 65 810 | ||||
| Pig | 1 301 866 | ||||
| D.erecta | 1 091 318 | ||||
| D.yakuba | 1 069 918 | ||||
| D.virilis | 907 289 | ||||
| Rabbit | 2 816 864 | ||||
| Platypus | 51b | ||||
aThe number of unique piRNAs may be less than shown.
bThe number of unique piRNAs comes from statistic of download file.
cThe number of canonical piRNAs is shown.