Table 1. Statistics of the Phalaenopsis draft genome.

Estimate of genome size	3.45 Gb
Chromosome number (2n)	38
Total size of assembled contigs	3.1 Gb
Number of contigs (≥ 1 kbp)	630,316
Largest contig	50,944
N50 length (contig)	1,489
Number of scaffolds (≥ 1 kbp)	149,151
Total size of assembled scaffolds	3,104,268,398
N50 length (scaffolds)	100,943
Longest scaffold	1,402,447
GC content	30.7
Number of gene models	41,153
Mean coding sequence length	1,014 bp
Mean exon length/number	264 bp/3.83
Mean intron length/number	3,099 bp/2.83
Exon GC (%)	41.9
Intron GC (%)	16.1
Number of predicted miRNA genes	650
Total size of transposable elements	1,598,926,178