Table 2.

Summary statistics before and after the fetching of the chloroplast reads.

	Case	Case	Case
	study 1	study 2	study 3
Genome size	950 MB	4–5 GB	25–35 GB
Total no of raw reads (pairs)	198 264 041	86 067 571	15 142 939
Total no of reads after stage 2 (pairs)	32 701 410	51 717 173	6 172 495
Total no of reads after stage 3 (pairs)	14 855 294	1 582 279	213 669