Table 1

Description of databases used for similarity searches.

Source
Tier*
Database
Link

ribosomal RNA
1
RBP II
http://rdp.cme.msu.edu
mitochondrial proteins
2
NCBI
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/blast/db/
protein sequences
3
SwissProt/TrEMBL
http://ca.expasy.org/sprot/

*the stage in which the database is used in prot4EST pipeline (see Figure 2).

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