Table 1 Comparison of genome assembly and quality assessment for Asian king vulture using PacBio and MGI hybrid sequencing with Purged analysis (PacBio-MGI-Purged) versus Nanopore and MGI hybrid sequencing (Nanopore-MGI).

N50 contig/scaffold size (bases)

28,731,705

8,220,899

L50 contig/scaffold number

16

N/A

Assembly size (bases)

1,288,247,345

1,223,963,004

Number of contigs/scaffolds

261

1001

Number of contigs/scaffolds ≥ 1 Kbp

116

N/A

Number of contigs/scaffolds ≥ 10 Kbp

84

N/A

Number of contigs/scaffolds ≥ 10 Mbp

38

N/A

Longest contig/scaffold (bases)

81,203,610

35,362,384

Number of Ns

0

N/A

GC content (%)

42.92

N/A

BUSCO evaluation (% completeness)

97.4

97