Table 1.

Metrics of the melon genome assembly

Assembly	Measure
Bases in contigs	335,385,220
No. of contigs (>100 bases)	60,752
No. of large contigs (>500 bases)	40,102
Average large contig size (bases)	8,233
N50 large contig size (bases)	18,163
No. of scaffolds	1,594
Bases in scaffolds (including gaps)	361,410,028
No. of contigs in scaffolds	30,887
No. of bases in contigs in scaffolds	321,933,769
Average scaffold size (bases)	226,731
N50 scaffold size (bases)	4,677,790