Table 2.
Summary of reference assembly of expressed short reads of channel catfish and blue catfish
| Catfish species | No. of reads used for assembly |
No. of reads assembled |
% sequences assembled |
No. of contigs | Average contig length (bp) |
Average contig size* |
Average coverage# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Channel | 218.8 × 106 | 152.6 × 106 | 69.8% | 103,650 | 670 | 1,473 | 137.4 |
| Blue | 274.6 × 106 | 183.8 × 106 | 66.7% | 104,475 | 775 | 1,760 | 164.2 |
*Number of reads per contig. #Total number of assembled read bases/Total number of bases in consensus sequence.