Table 1.

Datasets used in targeted assembly experiments

#	Species	Datatype	Read lengths	Total bases	Raw Cov.	Source
1	C.elegans	WGS	110 bp	7.5 Gbp	75x	SRA Accession: DRR008444
	C.elegans	Transcripts	–	27 Mbp	–	RefSeq mRNA (>1kb)
2	H.sapiens	WGS	250 bp	229 Gbp	70x	SRA Accession: ERR309932
	H.sapiens	Transcripts	–	138 Mbp	–	TCGA barcode: 22-4593-01 assembled using Trans-ABySS (v1.5.1; k = 42)
3	P.glauca	WGS	150–300 bp	1.2 Tbp	48x	SRA Accession: SRR1982100
	P.glauca	Transcripts	–	23 Mbp	–	Genome Annotation: GCA_000966675.1 (high confidence genes)
4	P.schaeffi	WGS	100 bp	12.8 Gbp	128x	SRA Accession: SRX390495
	P.Humanus	Transcripts	–	2.44 Mbp	–	Dryad DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9fk1s
5	M.musculus	WGS	150 bp	116 Gbp	41x	SRA Accession: SRX1595526
	H.sapiens	Transcripts	–	57 Mbp	–	Ensembl bioMART
6	H.sapiens	WGS	100 bp	13.8 Gbp	4x	TCGA barcode: TCGA-BA-4077 (subset)
	HPV 16	Ref. Genome	–	8 Kbp	–	Papillomavirus Episteme

The white spruce whole genome shotgun sequence read data reported in Table 1 dataset #3 is available at the SRA under accession SRP041401 and Genome Annotation from the high-confidence genes are available at ftp://ftp.bcgsc.ca/supplementary/PG29_20140822/high_confidence_genes.fasta.