Table 1 Comparison of assembly statistics between rheMac8 and rheMacS

From: Long-read assembly of the Chinese rhesus macaque genome and identification of ape-specific structural variants

Assembly

rheMac8

rheMacS

Assembly approach

WGS and BAC

WGS and Hi-C

Sequencing platform

Sanger, Illumina

PacBio, Bionano, Hi-C, Illumina

Number of contigs

348,493

4741

Contig N50 (Mbp)

0.11

8.19

Number of scaffolds

286,263

4543

Scaffold N50 (Mbp)

4.19

13.64

Number of gapsa

47,882

2858

Total gap length (Mbp)a

72.05

5.46

Total bases (bp)b

2,835,963,390

2,955,490,605

Ungapped bases (bp)c

2,763,913,633

2,950,026,318

  1. The assembly statistics of rheMac8 were obtained from NCBI (accession number: GCA_000772875.3). WGS whole-genome shotgun, BAC bacterial artificial chromosome
  2. aOnly N-base regions in the assembled chromosomes were counted
  3. bOnly chromosome-placed bases were counted
  4. cNon-N bases in the assembly
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