Whole genome de novo assemblies of three divergent strains of rice, Oryza sativa, document novel gene space of aus and indica

Table 3 Summary of unaligned reference regions

	Total bp	Regions	Average size	Maximum size	Mean k-mer coverage
Nipponbare	11,750,969	57,821	203 ± 350	12,773	12,210×
IR64	41,639,095	133,536	311 ± 921	27,087	7,938×
DJ123	37,010,281	122,589	302 ± 931	26,236	6,121×

Mean k-mer coverage was evaluated by counting the k-mers in a sample of 400 M unassembled reads in each of the three genomes, and evaluating those counts along the reference sequence.

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