Table 1.

Comparison of the new giant panda genome with previously published assemblies

	This study	ASM200744v1	AilMel_1.0
Total size of assembled scaffolds	2,445,001,150	2,428,263,693	2,299,509,015
Number of scaffolds	77,897	57,414	81,467
Scaffold N50	23,473,669	9,947,519	1,281,781
Scaffold L50	34	75	521
Longest scaffold	81,377,464	32,438,596	6,047,896
GC content	41.69%	41.69%	41.60%
Unresolved bases per 100 Kb	1937.47	1927.02	2356.86
Repeat region of assembly	41.05%	41.29%	34.7%
Number of gene models	22,284	23,371	22,154