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. 2015 Dec 16;16(12):29948–29970. doi: 10.3390/ijms161226213

Table 1.

Summary of transcriptome assembly after Illumina HiSeq 2500 sequencing of Lycaenid butterflies Spindasis takanosis and Protantigius superans.

Assembly Features Spindasis takanosis Protantigius superans
Raw Reads
Number of sequences 249,312,792 258,875,070
Number of bases 31,413,411,792 32,618,258,820
Mean length (bp) 126 126
Clean reads
Number of sequences 245,110,582 254,340,693
Number of bases 30,515,812,866 31,607,701,940
Mean length (bp) 124.5 124.3
N50 length (bp) 126 126
GC% 41.96 39.81
High-quality reads (%) 98.31 (sequences), 97.14 (bases) 98.25 (sequences), 96.90 (bases)
Number of reads discarded (%) 1.69 (sequences), 2.86 (bases) 1.75 (sequence), 3.1 (bases)
Contig information
Total number of contig 170,449 159,074
Number of bases 134,036,728 118,721,203
Mean length of contig (bp) 786.4 746.3
N50 length of contig (bp) 1372 1220
GC% of contig 38.58 38.45
Longest contig (bp) 16,820 15,152
No. of large contigs (≥500 bp) 66,844 62,485
Unigene information-
Total number of unigenes 121,140 107,950
Number of bases 100,232,710 89,022,313
Mean length of unigene (bp) 827.4 824.7
N50 length of unigene (bp) 1537 1452
GC% of unigene 38.68 38.46
Length ranges (bp) 124–16,820 114–17,062