Table 1. Salient features of the advance draft of desi chickpea (ICC4958) genome assembly.

Total size (base)	510,879,539
Number of scaffolds	38,513
Minimum scaffold length(bp)	1000
Maximum scaffold length(bp)	54,992,815
Average scaffold length(bp)	13,265
N50 length(bp)	39,901,017
N50 index	6
GC content (%)	27.95
Length of pseudomolecules (bp)
Ca_LG_1	39,901,017
Ca_LG_2	33,233,457
Ca_LG_3	42,267,542
Ca_LG_4	54,992,815
Ca_LG_5	45,819,701
Ca_LG_6	54,841,389
Ca_LG_7	45,279,478
Ca_LG_8	17,664,089
Protein-coding gene annotation
Number of genes	30,257
Total gene length	91,806,333
Total CDS length	35,503,303
Number of predicted mRNA	30,686
Average gene length (bp)	3034
Average coding sequence (CDS) length (bp)	1173
Average exon length (bp)	253
Average intron length (bp)	432
Average number of exons per gene	5.1
GC content in CDS	41.60%