Table 1 Summary of transcriptome assembly quality parameters.

From: Ulmus minor response to Dutch elm disease: de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation

Parameters

Preliminary assembly

Final assembly

No. of contigs

74,593

51,507

No. contigs >500 bp

54,995

35,324

No. contigs >1000 bp

33,658

19,495

Total lenght (bp)

96 464,235

59 715,254

Largest contig (bp)

16,407

16,407

Average contig length (bp)

1,293.21

1,159.36

Median contig length (bp)

881

733

GC content (%)

38.74

38.27

N50 contig size (bp)

1,961

1,810

L50 (contig no.)

15,439

9,996

  1. bp: base pairs; no.: number; GC: guanine-cytosine; N50: sequence length of the shortest contig at 50% of total assembly length; L50: count of smallest number of contigs with sum length over 50% of total assembly length.
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