Table 1 Fire ant EST and assembly statistics
Total number of sequence reads | 28,133 |
   cDNA clones sequenced from 5' end | 22,560 |
   Extra reads due to re-sequencing | 5,573 |
High-quality sequences after filtering* | 21,715 |
Average EST size after trimming (bp) | 522.4 |
Total number of assembled sequences | 11,864 |
   Number of contigs | 4,319 |
True contigs (from >2 different clones) | 3,057 |
Re-sequencing contigs†| 1,262 |
   Number of singletons | 7,545 |
Number of putatively different fire ant sequences | <11,864 |
Average size of assembled sequences (bp) | 600.5 |