Bos taurus genome assembly

BMC Genomics

Table 4 Assembly Completeness

Percentage Matched	Btau 1.0	Btau 2.0	Btau 3.1	Btau 4.0
Finished BACs	18	N/A	73	73
Contigs	94.57	N/A	98.50	98.50
Markers	N/A	10,387	21,971	21,971
Scaffolds	N/A	95.70	98.61	98.61
Unigene sets or ESTs	23,924	23,924	1,040,000	1,040,000
Scaffolds	83.82	92.40	95.00	95.00
BES	N/A	321,287	N/A	N/A
Scaffolds	N/A	95.20	N/A	N/A

The table gives the numbers of BACS, markers, ESTs or BES used for comparison, and the percentage of Contigs or Scaffolds that matched each set. Additional file 2 gives the same comparisons for the unassembled reads as well as the assembled sequences.

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