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Table 2 Assembly statistics for the Atlantic salmon, brown trout, Arctic charr and European whitefish de novo transcriptome assemblies

From: De novo transcriptome assembly, annotation and comparison of four ecological and evolutionary model salmonid fish species

Feature

Atlantic salmon

Brown trout

Arctic charr

European whitefish

Number of base pairs in cleaned reads

64,909,254,125

67,282,460,986

65,841,176,651

73,342,359,278

Number of paired-end reads

191,977,874

190,239,319

180,232,708

209,578,198

Number of base pairs in initial assembly

182,476,550

179,378,175

156,753,048

162,053,186

Number of transcripts in initial assembly

235,515

242,899

200,760

209,920

Number of base pairs in final assembly

73,403,213

69,587,826

64,848,138

63,007,687

Number of transcripts in final assembly

36,505

35,736

33,126

33,697

Average transcript length (bp)

2011

1947

1957

1902

Minimum transcript length (bp)

297

297

297

298

Maximum transcript length (bp)

17,114

15,967

15,742

15,887

N50

2464

2393

2411

2325

N90

1115

1080

1087

1062