Table 2. Overview of assemblies from 15 Plasmodium falciparum isolates.
| Isolate | Synonyms | Total assembled
bases * |
Contigs | Chromosomes
with 2 telomeres attached |
Centromeres | Protein-
coding genes |
Apicoplast
assembly length |
Mitochondrion
assembly length |
VAR genes
(> 2.5 kb) ** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pf3D7
(v3.1) |
23,292,622 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 5,432 | 34,247 | not present | 67 | |
| Pf3D7
(Pacbio) |
23,199,454 | 23 | 6 | 14 | na | 34,249 | 6,093 | na | |
| Guinea
(GN01) |
23,672,855 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 5,455 | 34,242 | 6,094 | 90 | |
| Congo
(CD01) |
23,545,947 | 19 | 11 | 14 | 5,397 | not present | not present | 75 | |
| Dd2 | Dd2-2D4 | 22,641,838 | 16 | 10 | 14 | 5,297 | 34,247 | 6,094 | 51 |
| Kenya
(KE01) |
9106 | 22,736,618 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 5,312 | 45,629 | 6,087 | 57 |
| Cambodia
(KH01) |
KH1-01 | 23,225,979 | 22 | 6 | 14 | 5,417 | 34,248 | 6,094 | 68 |
| 7G8 | 22,774,710 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 5,318 | 51,008 | 6,094 | 47 | |
| Gabon
(GA01) |
MOA D2 | 23,089,490 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 5,362 | 51,533 | 6,094 | 64 |
| GB4 | 23,436,708 | 26 | 6 | 14 | 5,447 | 46,656 | 6,094 | 74 | |
| Cambodia
(KH02) |
KH2-01 | 23,068,186 | 21 | 10 | 14 | 5,367 | 50,279 | 6,095 | 56 |
| IT | 23,123,850 | 27 | 5 | 14 | 5,327 | 51,087 | 6,094 | 60 | |
| Sudan
(SD01) |
22,709,431 | 19 | 5 | 14 | 5,292 | 34,244 | 6,094 | 56 | |
| Togo
(TG01) |
25,900,321 | 79 | 5 | 14 | 5,944 | 34,245 | 6,094 | 147 | |
| HB3 | 22,771,623 | 28 | 3 | 14 | 5,299 | 34,247 | 6,094 | 50 | |
| Senegal
(SN01) |
SenT021.09 | 23,450,349 | 36 | 4 | 11 | 5,432 | 43,092 | 6,093 | 79 |
| Mali
(ML01) |
25,622,360 | 117 | 0 | 14 | 5,882 | 46,599 | 6,094 | 130 |
*
Total bases exclude apicoplast and mitochondrion.
**
VAR genes (>2.5kb) includes all var sequences above stated length (i.e. intact genes, pseudogenes and fragments).