Table 1. Summary statistics of the ESTs generated from the German cockroach through pyrosequencing.

Features	Values
Total number of reads	1,365,609
Average read length	529 bp
Number of reads involved in the assembly	1,362,260
Total number of unique sequences	52,761
Total number of contigs	48,800
Total number of singletons	3,961
Average unigenes size	798 bp
N50 contig size	792 bp