Fig. 3

Amount of missing data [%] in nine selected parameters analyzed by Elliott and Gregory [4]. We selected nine parameters evaluated by Elliott and Gregory [4], namely those that are directly comparable to the parameters evaluated by COGNATE. These parameters are: (1) the size of the assembled genome (in Mb); (2) the GC content of the assembled genome in % (COGNATE provides here two values, taking Ns in the sequence into account and excluding them, respectively); (3) gene number (total gene count in COGNATE); (4) average coding size/gene in exonic bp (mean added CDS length per transcript in COGNATE); (5) coding amount (total added length of all CDSs in COGNATE); (6) the average exon size in bp (mean exon length in COGNATE); (7) the average intron size in bp (mean intron length in COGNATE); (8) intron number (total intron count in COGNATE); (9) intron amount (total added length of all introns in COGNATE). Please note that we applied the same parameter terminology in the figure as Elliott and Gregory [4]. Values of these parameters were taken from the supplement of [4], including all genomes of the original set and partitioned by kingdoms (animals, red; land plants, orange; fungi, light blue; ‘protists’, dark blue). Values referring to all genomes are depicted by a black line. The plot shows the amount of missing data, i.e., for each parameter, the count of missing values per count of potential values was determined. Thus, 0% of missing data means that all values of the genome set under scrutiny were present, as is nearly the case for GC content. bp: basepairs; CDS: CoDing Sequence; Mb: Megabases