Comprehensive annotation of secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes and gene clusters of Aspergillus nidulans, A. fumigatus, A. niger and A. oryzae

Table 8 Number of gene clusters predicted by SMURF, antiSMASH, or manual and experimental methods

	SMURF	antiSMASH	Manual	Experimental	Total clusters predicted*
A. nidulans	49	66	63	9	71
A. fumigatus	33	38	29	5	39
A. niger	79	70	66	0	81
A. oryzae	57	73	62	2	75

* The number for total clusters predicted is the sum total of non-redundant clusters predicted by any method for a species. Manual boundary predictions include those that were experimentally detemined and published, or were made by evaluating published expression profile data (M. Andersen et al, 2013), cluster synteny among Aspergillus strains/species, changes in functional annotation and/or increases in intergenic distance, in that order of relative weight.

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