Table 2. Comparison of annotation quality for the iterative annotation pipeline in this study with a reference annotation.

Results shown are for the M. globosa genome.

		Reference	Iterative annotation
General Statistics	# of genes	4286	4271
	Avg. length of genes	1484	1613
	# of exons	6377	8214
	# nucleotides in exons	6.2 Mbp	6.6 Mbp
	Exons per gene	1.5	1.92
	Avg. length of exons	975	801
Proteome Completeness	PFam domains	7113	7327
	Unique PFam domains	2643	2755
Intron-Exon Junctions	# of introns	2092	3943
	Introns per gene	0.5	0.92
	Avg. length of introns	76	79
	Junctions	2091	3940
	Supported junctions	1785 (85%)	2995 (76%)