De Novo Next Generation Sequencing of Plant Genomes

Rice

Table 2 Assembly Statistics (Commonly Reported Assembly Statistics for the Combined Data Covering the Entire Chromosome Arm)

	Entire chromosome arm
	Stage 1: initial assembly	Stage 2: merge overlaps between pools	Stage 3: BAMBUS scaffolding
Number scaffolds	123	119	44
N50 scaffold size	360,621	370,878	3,165,134
Largest scaffold	1,195,083	1,195,083	6,645,942
Total scaffold length	18,635,055	18,401,654	18,496,608
Number contigs	2,718	2,677
N50 contig size	14,195	14,307
Largest contig	76,790	76,903
Total contig length	18,634,193	18,427,025