Table 3. Summary of assembly-completeness for 13 P. falciparum lines assembled de novo from PacBio data.
All isolates included except ML01 and TG01, which appear to be mixed infections. Left and right telomeres are arbitrarily defined based on the 3D7 reference that was used throughout.
| Chromosomes | Completely
assembled |
Left telomere
present |
Right telomere
present |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 9 | 7 |
| 2 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
| 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| 6 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
| 7 | 8 | 12 | 8 |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 |
| 10 | 6 | 9 | 9 |
| 11 | 8 | 11 | 9 |
| 12 | 10 | 12 | 11 |
| 13 | 6 | 9 | 9 |
| 14 | 10 | 13 | 10 |