Table 2.

Assembly statistics for the Atlantic salmon, brown trout, Arctic charr and European whitefish de novo transcriptome assemblies

Feature	Atlantic salmon	Brown trout	Arctic charr	European whitefish
Number of base pairs in cleaned reads	64,909,254,125	67,282,460,986	65,841,176,651	73,342,359,278
Number of paired-end reads	191,977,874	190,239,319	180,232,708	209,578,198
Number of base pairs in initial assembly	182,476,550	179,378,175	156,753,048	162,053,186
Number of transcripts in initial assembly	235,515	242,899	200,760	209,920
Number of base pairs in final assembly	73,403,213	69,587,826	64,848,138	63,007,687
Number of transcripts in final assembly	36,505	35,736	33,126	33,697
Average transcript length (bp)	2011	1947	1957	1902
Minimum transcript length (bp)	297	297	297	298
Maximum transcript length (bp)	17,114	15,967	15,742	15,887
N50	2464	2393	2411	2325
N90	1115	1080	1087	1062