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Table 1 Summary of sesame genome assembly and annotation

From: Genome sequencing of the high oil crop sesame provides insight into oil biosynthesis

Assembly

 

Number

N50 (size/number)

N90 (size/number)

Total length

Contigs

All

26,239

52.17 kb/1,545

11.40 kb/5,534

270 Mb

Scaffolds

All

16,444

2.10 Mb/42

268.23 kb/169

274 Mb

Anchored on chromosomes

150

-

-

234 Mb

Anchored on chromosomes and oriented

117

-

-

207 Mb

Annotation

 

Number

Total length

Percentage of the assembly

Protein coding genes

All

27,148

86.08 Mb

31.46

Transposable elements

All

-

78.86 Mb

28.46

LTR retroelements

-

48.03 Mb

17.56

Non-LTR retrotransposonsa

-

11.70 Mb

4.28

DNA transposons

-

10.88 Mb

3.98

Unknown

-

14.64 Mb

5.35

Non-coding RNAs

rRNA fragments

386

89.66 kb

<0.04

tRNAs

870

65.31 kb

<0.03

miRNAs

207

25.41 kb

<0.01

snRNAs

268

33.93 kb

<0.02

  1. aLong interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) and short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs). LTR, long terminal repeats; miRNA, microRNA; snRNA, small nuclear RNA.