Table 2.

Summary statistics of ( S . maximus) 454-pyrosequencing

Total reads (raw wells)	2,762,845
High quality reads (filtered)	1,191,866
Total megabases (Mb)	341.2
Average read length (bp)	286
N50 read length (bp)	383
Number of contigs	65,472
Number of contigs > 500 bp	32,612
Number of singletons	172,108
Total consensus length (Mb)	41
Average contig coverage	4.6
Maximum coverage	578.7
Mean contig length (bp)	625.9
Median contig length (bp)	499
Mode contig length (bp)	365
N25 contig length (bp)	1,217
N50 contig length (bp)	748
N75 contig length (bp)	482