Each column
ID: ID for EVE used in this study (Genome ID, chromosome, start, end, strand)
chr: chromosome ID
start: start position
end: end position
strand: strand
Amino acid length
method: method for EVE identification; 1, ReTe; 2, ReMa; 3, ReTe ∩ ReMA; 4, Blat; 5, ReTe ∩ Blat; 6, ReMa ∩ Blat, 7, ReTe ∩ ReMa ∩ Blat; 0, Other (see “Comparison of EVE identification methods” in the About section).
Number of N letters: the number of Ns (undetermined nucleotides) in the region
MetORF ID: ID for EVE starting with methionine
Amino acid length of MetORF: amino acid length for an EVE starting with methionine
HMM profile: significant motif profile(s)
Viral BLAST: BLASTP best hit(s) against the NCBI Viral Genome Database (viral.1.protein.faa, version 07/10, 2014)
NR BLAST: BLASTP best hit(s) against the NCBI NR database
EVE BLAST: BLASTP best hit(s) against known EVE sequences
RetroTector: annotation by RetroTector
Repbase: annotation by RepeatMasker with Repbase database
Overlapping: overlaps between EVE sequences and introns/exons of all annotated genes (shown with/without parentheses, respectively).