. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2016 Nov 5;243:96–119. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.11.001

Table 2.

Homarus americanus eyestalk ganglia transcriptome assembly statistics

Total number of bases assembled	183,106,109
Total number of reads assembled	130,973,220
Total number of assembled contigs	147,542
Total number of Trinity “genes”	110,841
Minimum contig length (bp)	324
Maximum contig length (bp)	27,389
Average contig length (bp)	1,241
Median contig length (bp)	637
N25 (bp)	4,193
N50 (bp)	2,160
N75 (bp)	869
Total GC count (bp)	74,888,256
GC content for the complete assembly (%)	40.90

Abbreviations: bp, base pairs; GC, guanine-cytosine.

Transcriptome assembly statistics were generated using Trinity software. Reads used for the de novo assembly were trimmed for Illumina adapters and quality filtered (Phred score=30)

Read length ranged from 324-27389 bp.