Table 2.

Compact overview of the datasets

	Datasets
	Yeast	E. coli	Human
Genome length	12.1 Mb	4.6 Mb	3.2 Gb
Sequencing machine	Illumina HiSeq	Roche 454	Illumina GA II
Database	NCBI SRA	CGU	NCBI SRA
Accession number	ERX191563	-	SRX013970
Run id	ERR216898	-	SRR031057
Number of downloaded reads ( N )	3,551,079	436,142	14,267,012
Avg. reads length ± st.dev	100 ±6	235 ±4	75 ±5
Total base pairs	355.0 M	102.5 M	1.1 G
Random selection of aligned reads ( rs )	54,860	100,000	183,672
Total number of selected reads ( rtot )	109,720	200,000	367,344
Read pairs in each subset rp	1 M	200,000	1 M
Source chromosome	chr1	-	chr1