Table 1.

Metrics of sand rat raw genomic sequencing data and final genome assembly

Genome sequencing and assembly	Value
Total no. of paired-end reads	724,377,486
Total no. of mate-pair reads	1,780,436,140
Total bases sequenced	394,396,928,120
Estimated sequencing coverage, x	87.6
No. of scaffolds >2 kb	1,737
Total length of assembly, bp	2,381,209,849
Longest scaffold, bp	54,616,910
Mean scaffold length, bp	15,794
Scaffold N50, bp	10,461,538
Scaffold L50	63
Contig N50, bp	83,904
Percentage of assembly in scaffolds, %	98.6

Coverage was calculated by using an estimated genome size of 2.51 Gb based on a k-mer analysis (SI Appendix, SI Materials and Methods, section 1.3) and is based on paired-end sequencing data only.