Application of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression to the Study of the Gene Expression Profile of Leishmania infantum chagasi Promastigote

Table 3

Results of conventional BLAST alignments of 1,645 tags with two or more copies in the L. i. chagasi library per alignment region and distance from the nearest ORF.

Tags/genes	5′ UTR (%)	3′ UTR (%)	Total (%)
Different tags aligned at	690 (42.0)	659 (40.0)	1,349 (82.0)
Genes identified at
Up to 1Kb	624 (38.0)	632 (38.4)	1,256 (76.4)
Between 1 to 2 Kb	120 (7.2)	116 (7.0)	236 (14.3)
More than 2 Kb	41 (2.5)	44 (2.7)	85 (5.2)
Total	785 (47.8)	792 (48.1)	1,577 (95.9)
Mean distance from ORF	718	718	—
Reach (bp)	5 to 14,647	1 to 8,161	—