Transcriptome sequencing of lentil based on second-generation technology permits large-scale unigene assembly and SSR marker discovery

Table 1 Summary information for contig assembly of lentil ESTs

Number of reads per contig	Number of contigs	Percentage of total contigs per read number class
2	271	1.8
3	731	4.8
4	1641	10.7
5	1519	9.9
6	1194	7.8
7	1000	6.5
8	870	5.7
9	685	4.5
10	588	3.8
11-15	1798	11.7
16-20	1016	6.6
21-25	632	4.1
26-30	452	2.9
31-35	347	2.3
36-40	312	2.0
41-45	263	1.7
46-50	202	1.3
> 50	1833	11.9