Table 2.

Quality assessment parameters drawn from transcripts of publicly available genome databases.

Species	Genome size (Mbases)	Number of transcripts including isoforms	N50	GC%
Arabidopsis thaliana	120	41671	1912	42.27
Brassica rapa	485	41019	1482	46.28
Populus trichocarpa	481	45033	1845	42.29
Solanum lycopersicum	950	35802	1461	41.61
Oryza sativa	420	66338	2295	51.30
Setaria italica	515	40599	1811	52.75
Zea mays	2066	136770	1612	51.14