Table 1

Classification of EST functional class categories based on similarity searches with NCBI protein database.

Category
No. of ESTs

Total no. of ESTs
1412 (100%)
Immune-related
432 (31%)
Housekeeping genes and other genes not involved in immunity
569 (39%)
Hypothetical/unknown insect proteins
135 (9.5%)
Hypothetical/unknown non-insect proteins
50 (3.5%)
Weak homology in NCBI*
170 (12%)
No homology in NCBI
56 (3.9%)

Percentage value of each category is in parenthesis. *- Hits with relatively less similarity (E value>1e – 05).

Gandhe et al. BMC Genomics 2006 7:184   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-7-184