Table 1 Comparison of A. japonicus genome assemblies in 2017, 2018 and 2023.

From: Chromosome-level genome assembly of the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

Year

2017

2018

2023

Sequencing instrument

Illumina + PacBio (CLR)

Illumina + PacBio (CLR)

Illumina + Pacbio (CCS)

# Reads

128,784,478

10,588,443

# Bases (Gbp)

260 (Illumina) + 64 (Pacbio)

349 (Illumina) + 23 (Pacbio)

56.54 (Illumina) + 43.22 (Pacbio)

Coverage

295 × (Illumina) + 73 × (Pacbio)

346 × (Illumina) + 24 × (Pacbio)

84 × (Illumina) + 64 × (Pacbio)

Hi-C(Gbp)

3.18

# Chromosomes

22

23

Genome size (Mbp)

804.9

952

671.6

# Contigs

4,741

21,303

198

Contig N50 (Mbp)

0.190

0.045

17.20

# Scaffolds

3,281

7,286

34

Scaffold N50 (Mbp)

0.486

0.196

29.65

Repeat rate (%)

27.2

26.6

47.33

GC content (%)

36.75

37.37

38.56

# Genes

30,350

29,451

19,828

miRNAs

137

1,066

tRNAs

1,127

4,963

rRNAs

75

3,379

snRNAs

223

1,088