Table 1 Summary of reads mapping to the bovine transcriptome

Number of reads

43,176,380

36,125,981

46,478,996

125,781,357

Number of bases (in Gb)

8.72

7.30

9.39

25.41

Contamination

81,940

87,847

90,532

260,319

E. coli

275

351

290

916

PhiX

67,226

81,146

84,717

233,089

Yeast

14,439

6,360

5,525

26,324

%

0.19

0.24

0.19

0.21

Number of uniquely mapped paired-reads

27,122,319

24,132,331

29,640,240

80,894,890

%

62.82

66.80

63.77

64.31

Number of transcripts

18,356

18,417

18,493

19,752

Number of genes

15,189

15,242

15,303

16,287