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Table 1 The quality of the canary genome assembly

From: Using the canary genome to decipher the evolution of hormone-sensitive gene regulation in seasonal singing birds

Contig number

62,459

N50 contig length

60,906

Contig length average

16,438

Largest contig

575,284

Degen contigs total length

104,692,948

Contigs total length

1,026,679,711

Superscaffold number

3,665

N50 superscaffold length

25,151,939

Superscaffold length average

286,906

Largest superscaffold

88,717,954

Superscaffolds total length

1,051,512,088

  1. The assembly consists of 62,459 contigs with an N50 length of 60.91 kbp that add up to a consensus length of 1.027 Gbp. The contigs were ordered to 3,899 scaffolds with an N50 length of 10.77 Mbp. These could be combined to 3,665 superscaffolds by adding collinearity information from the zebra finch. The superscaffolds span a length of 1.051 Gbp and exhibit an N50 length of 25.15 Mbp. Because approximately 81% of the reads were assembled in the contigs, the complete genome of the canary should be approximately 1.2 Gbp in size. Data are given as bp.
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Genome Biology

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