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Table 2 De novo assembly statistics

From: Comparative RNA seq analysis of the New Zealand glowworm Arachnocampa luminosa reveals bioluminescence-related genes

Input

Assembly software

Number of transcripts

Number of bases assembled

N50 (bp)

Number of singleton reads

Median contig length (bp)

Mean contig length (bp)

Maximum contig length (bp)

454 reads (two libraries merged)

CLC Genomics Workbench

18 794

14 257 486

897

94 753

586

759

11 217

Illumina reads (six libraries merged)

Trinity

196 766

187 289 921

1 828

NA

447

952

30 278

  1. N50 size = the length such that 50 % of the assembled genome lies in N50 size or greater; NA = not applicable to results from this assembly program