Table 2.

PAVE assembly results

	Sanger maize	454 trichome
ESTs	797,619	415,559
Mate-pairs	127,452	n/a
Contigsa	51,202	24,437
Singletons	36,780	46,162
Contigs joined by n's	14,946	n/a
Mates joined by n's	5,930	n/a
Buried ESTsb	105,574	144,349
Timec	6.7 days	6 days
ESTs in contigs:
= 2	13,465	9,926
3–5	13,526	8,249
6–10	8,493	2,860
11–20	6,514	1,463
21–50	6,125	1,049
51–100	2,090	445
101–1000	986	412
>1000	3	33
Length of contigs:
1–100	0	4,769
101–500	22941	61,593
501–1000	33509	3,302
1001–2000	27569	867
2001–3000	3794	60
3001–4000	165	4
4001–5000	3	2
>5000	1	2

^a Does not include singletons.

^b No mismatches were allowed for the initial BLAST bury for the Sanger, whereas one mismatch was allowed for the 454.

^c The initial self-BLAST of the maize and trichomes ESTs took 33 CPU hours 9 CPU hours on a super-computer, respectively, which is not included in the time.