Assembly of 500,000 inter-specific catfish expressed sequence tags and large scale gene-associated marker development for whole genome association studies

Table 2 EST assembly statistics

	Blue catfish	Channel catfish	All catfish
	139,475	354,377	493,852
Short and simple sequences removed	2,735	6,230	8,965
Sequences for assembly	136,740	348,147	484,887
Contigs	22,009	28,941	45,306
Singletons	32,806	41,776	66,272
Average number of sequences per contig	4.72	10.6	9.2
Total unique sequences	54,815	70,717	111,578

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