Additional file 1:

BLAST evaluation on the vector trimming results conducted with the three trimming programs using either vector form. The BLAST analysis results following the filtering criteria used through this report are shown in this Excel file. The bioinformatic program and the vector form used for trimming are indicated in the name of the worksheet. The worksheet "column descript" provides a description of what each column name represents. This file contains all the source data used to derive Tables 3 and 4 in the main text.

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Additional file 2:

Effect of vectors on vector trimming performance by three programs. The same as Table 4 in the main text except that the number, instead of the percentage, of incompletely trimmed ESTs was used.

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Additional file 3:

Artifact vector trimming found with ESTs from dbEST at NCBI. Error rate of dbEST with emphasis on vector contamination was investigated by "BLASTing" the ESTs randomly sampled from dbEST at NCBI either against the UniVec (worksheet "601_UniVec") or against the sequences of their cloning vectors (worksheet "601_22vector"). Shown in the Excel file are the filtered BLAST results according to the criteria described in Methods. Please note that in worksheet "601_22vector", only 35,363 EST sequences which were cloned into the most prevalent 22 vectors were used for BLAST analysis (Please see methods for details.) The Spreadsheet "col des" provides a description of each column.

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