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Table 2 Number of BLATSN hits against human, bacterial and viral databases

From: Analysis of the salivary microbiome using culture-independent techniques

  BLASTN hita counts R/F ratio
  F R  
Database    
Human b 801677 642018 80.0
Bacteria c 7898 6807 86.7
Viruses d 38 34 89.5
Fungi e 0 0 -
  1. F, forward run; R, reverse run.
  2. a The following BLASTN parameters were used: wordsize = 16, e ≤ 10-30, sequence identity ≥ 94%, alignment length ≥ 90 nt.
  3. b combined entries from ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/fastafiles/emblrelease/em_rel_std_hum.gz as of 4 March 2011, and ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/FASTA/human_genomic.gz as of 12 March 2011.
  4. c ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/ as of 16 November 2010.
  5. d ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Viruses/ as of 25 November 2010.
  6. e ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Fungi/ as of 3 March 2011.
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Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics

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