Table 2. Description of the data sets used for aligner comparisons.

The Illumina and PacBio data for A. thaliana is available from [23]; the human Illumina and PacBio reads are from the Ashkenazi child data set (available from the Genome in a Bottle project [24], NCBI SRA accession SRX847862). The reference genomes are the Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 reference genome [18], the human reference genome version GRCh38.p7 [19], and the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) genome [20] (release PanTro4, GenBank accession GCF00001515.6).

Reference	Genome size	Illumina			PacBio
		number of reads	bases in reads	average read size	number of reads	bases in reads	average read size
Arabidopsis	120 Mb	23 M	6919 M	300 bp	481 K	2748 M	5713 bp
Human	3.09 Gb	264 M	39.1 G	300 bp	3.9 M	30.5 G	7821 bp
Chimp	3.31 Gb