Table 1.

Cattle BAC-End Sequencing Statistics

Project statistic
BAC end sequencing reads	80,448
BESsa	63,541 (79%)
BESs after trimmingb	60,547 (95.3%)
Average read length, bp	515
BESs mate-pairsc	24,855 (82%)
Total bases sequenced	31,250,134
Repeat masked bases	14,499,057 (46.4%)
Redundant BESsd	6.3%

^aNumber of sequences with edited read length ≥200 bp

^bNumber of sequences free of E. coli and vector DNA, with edited read length ≥200 bp

^cNumber of clones with both ends successfully sequenced

^dRepeat-masked BESs that have >90% identity with other BESs and alignments >100 bp