Table 1. Summary of Illumina HiSeq 2000 short read data used for seabuckthorn transcriptome assembly.

Data item	Leaf	Root
Total number of reads	44791536	49222400
Read length	91	91
Total number of HQ reads	41067522	45186352
Percentage of HQ reads	91.69%	91.80%
Total number of bases	4031238240 (4.0 Gb)	4430016000 (4.4 Gb)
Total number of bases in HQ reads	3696076980 (3.7 Gb)	4066771680 (4.0 Gb)
Total number of HQ bases in HQ reads	3619124516	3985259341
Percentage of HQ bases in HQ reads	97.92%	98%

HQ stands for high quality obtained after running NGS QC toolkit on raw data