Table 1 Summary statistics of orchid transcriptome.

From: Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Vernalization- and Cytokinin-Induced Floral Transition in Dendrobium nobile

Species

D. nobile

O. Gower Ramsey

C. sinense

Phalaenopsis

Sequencing platform

Illumina

454 GS-FLX

Illumina

454 GS-FLX

Total number of raw reads

110,000,000

920,196

59,512,598

42,034,787

Total number of clean reads

95,051,256

916,682

54,248,006

206,960

Total clean nucleotides (nt)

8,554,613,040

301,843,196

4,882,320,540

47,186,880

Average read length

90

327

90

228

Total number of contigs

255,369

120,219/50,908

147,162

34,630/8233

Mean length of contigs (nt)

269

267/493

326

201/364

Total number of unigenes

99,689

171,127

83,580

42863

Mean length of unigenes (nt)

684

 

612

 
  1. Reads are assembled using Trinity. The longest assembled sequences are called contigs. Sequences without Ns and cannot be extended on either end are defined as unigenes.
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