Table 1 General characteristics of A. mongolicus ESTs, showing number of ESTs in each category

Total number of readable sequences obtained

5637

Vector sequence, low quality and other contaminants

311

Sequences below 100bp

44

High quality ESTs

5282

Full-length ratio of ESTs (Percentage)

3064 (57.5%)

Contigs

461

Singletons

1145

Candidate genes

1606

ESTs matching to Nr database (Percentage)

3741 (70.8%)

Unigenes matching to Nr database (Percentage)

1123 (70.4%)

Unigenes

1594