Table 2. Validation of ezRAD data against genomic contigs.

Comparison of ezRAD results using two different sets of reference contigs, the original ezRAD analysis pipeline contigs and published genomic contigs for the seastar Patiria miniata.

Reference type	ezRAD	Genomic contigs
Number of contigs	635,376	179,756
Mapped reads	47,718,931	26,130,869
High quality mapped	14,987,372	21,997,385
Variable sites	1,167,981	1,156,633
Shared SNPs	187,597	151,742
>10× Shared SNPs	143,254	114,620