Table 1. Ion Proton reads obtained from the genome of the two sequenced donkeys.

Aligment with the draft donkey genome [36]
	No. of reads (unaligned)	Nucleotides	Mean depth (X)	Coverage (%)
Peppe	144,087,558 (6,496,365)	17,073,700,000	7.27	93.53
Pippo	70,058,654 (1,984,507)	8,898,950.,000	3.79	90.21
Peppe+Pippo	214,146,212 (8,480,872)	25,972,650,000	11.06	94.76
Aligment with the EcuCab2.0 horse genome
	No. of reads (unaligned)	Nucleotides	Mean depth (X)	Coverage (%)
Peppe	159,629,721 (1,355)	19,012,008,351	8.03	96.33
Pippo	77,041,062 (931)	9,919,701,614	4.19	93.29
Peppe+Pippo	236,670,783 (2,286)	28,931,709,965	12.22	97.54

Reads are aligned with the draft donkey and EquCab2.0 horse genomes and related metrics are reported.