Table 1. Rubber tree BPM24 assembly statistics.

	Short-read assembly 454 + Illumina contigs	Preliminary draft 454 + Illumina + PacBio scaffolding	Final assembly 454 + Illumina + PacBio & Chicago scaffolding
Number of contigs/scaffolds	989,097	658,583	592,580
Number of contigs/scaffolds > 1 kb	253,689	113,021	47,154
Total length of contigs/scaffolds (bp)	868,915,424	1,249,467,938	1,256,269,486
Longest contig/scaffold (bp)	76,143	1,224,126	2,026,921
Mean contig/scaffold size (bp)	878	1,897	2,119
Contig/scaffold N50 (bp)	1,316	51,412	96,825
Contig/scaffold L50	161,440	4,695	2,520
% N in scaffolds	0.002	0.00321	0.05463
Number of gaps	13,567	13,066	81,022
Non-gap bases	868,901,484	1,249,454,514	1,249,459,262