ELXR: a resource for rapid exon-directed sequence analysis

Table 2 Statistical assessment of ELXRdb for mouse and human compared with analogous statistics initially reported by the public human genome sequencing project

	Mouse	Human	HGC [1]
Dataset
Total RefSeq mRNAs processed	5,110	12,260	1,804
Number of primer pairs successfully designed	59,874	179,065
Number of exons processed	44,715	123,757
Single-exon genes	348	853
Averages
Intron size	3,644 bp	4,573 bp	3,365 bp
Internal intron size	3,057 bp	3,876 bp
Exon size	218 bp	244 bp
Exon number	8.7	10	8.8
Initial exon size	204 bp	240 bp
Terminal exon size	633 bp	874 bp
Internal exon size	143 bp	151 bp	145 bp
Coding-sequence nucleotides	1,315 bp	1,558 bp	1,340 bp
Coding sequence amino acids	438	520	447
Genomic extent	38 kb	62 kb	27 kb

Exon statistics were compiled from Sim4. Coding sequences are as defined in GenBank annotation. Empty fields in the HGC column indicate that there were no values for these measures provided in [1].

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