Table 1. Summary of the Roche 454 and Illumina GAII data used for assembling the turkey genome sequence.

	Number of Reads (Million)	Average Usable Read Length (bp)
454/Roche data:
Shotgun	13	366
3 Kbp paired end	3	180
20 Kbp paired end	1	195
Illumina data:
Shotgun	200	74
180 bp paired end	200	74