Table 1.

Summary of sequence mapping to the reference P. falciparum genome

Alignment summary	Mapping characteristics
Length of non-gap regions covered by reads	13,226,305
Length of 24 bp unique regions of the reference	264,683
Reference nucleotide composition	A: 37.87%, C: 13.35%, G: 14.62%, T: 34.16%
Reads nucleotide composition	A: 36.07%, C: 15.71%, G: 17.71%, T: 30.51%
Average depth across all non-gap regions	0.691
Average depth across 24 bp unique regions	0.514
Number of reference sequences	132,994
Length of reference sequences excluding gaps	53,277,940
Length of gaps in the reference sequences	1,299,037
Average coverage depth of reference sequence	5.7×