Table 1

Comparison between EST and SAGE methods for the detection of low-abundance transcripts

Frequency of detection
Virtual tags from 3' EST
Experimental SAGE tags





Tags
Copies

1
2,278
854
854
2

482
964
3

313
939
4

190
760
5

97
485
6 to 10

217
1,578
11 to 20

86
1,234
21 to 100

37
1,279
>100

2
51,661

Total
2,278
2,278
59,754

Sun et al. BMC Genomics 2004 5:1   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-5-1