Table 1 Summary of 454 sequencing and assembly for P. notoginseng

HQ reads

188,185

77,079,504

Average HQ read length

410 ± 138 bp

Reads used in assembly

184,785

75,152,969

Reads assembled as contigs

164,855

65,067,207

Number of contigs

14,005

8,131,261

Average length of contigs

581 ± 404 bp

Range of contig lengths

95 - 10,423 bp

Contigs above 200 bp

12,809

7,956,026

Number of singletons

16,847

5,775,116

Average length of singletons

343 ± 166 bp

Range of singleton lengths

50 - 728 bp

Singletons above 200 bp

12,365

5,310,178

Number of unique sequences^a

30,852

Unique sequences above 200 bases

25,174