Table 1 Statistics for the assembly of the Populus euphratica genome.

From: Genomic insights into salt adaptation in a desert poplar

Assembly

Contig N50 * (bp)

Longest contig (bp)

Scaffold N50 * (bp)

Longest scaffold (bp)

Normal whole-genome shotgun reads only

5,209

97,386

40,276

744,683

Fosmid reads only

6,519

46,382

10,282

69,305

Combined

40,438

728,449

482,055

8,759,900

  1. *N50 refers to the size above which 50% of the total length of the sequence assembly can be found.
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