Table 2 Quality control statistics for the assembled transcriptome: TransRate metrics are derived from mapping RNAseq reads to the assembly, with higher scores indicating a higher quality assembly.

From: Comparative Genomics of Color Morphs In the Coral Montastraea cavernosa

 

TRANSRATE

Score

Number of Contigs

Assembly Size

Percent Mapping

Percent Bases Uncovered

Percent Contigs Lowcovered

Montastrea_v1.0.2.fasta

0.61

74,978

122.6 Mb

91

1

1

  1. A score of 0.61 ranks this assembly higher than the majority of other published transcriptomes, with 91% of reads mapping, and only 1% of bases uncovered (no read support) and 1% contigs low-covered (mean per-base read coverage of <10).
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