Table 1.

Alignment statistics and uncovered rRNA positions in samples used for analysis.

Sample	number of raw reads used	4 mln	8 mln	12 mln	16 mln	20 mln
Sample 1 HUVEC	trimmed reads	3873996	7741257	11607806	15471803	19341955
	short reads for alignment	1761248	3581209	5338558	7104102	8909438
	aligned to rRNA reference	1513287	3077770	4587105	6104305	7657111
	uncovered pos 5S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 5.8S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 18S rRNA	4	1	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 28S rRNA	100	37	21	11	7
Sample 2 BMSC	trimmed reads	3878093	7752516	11628210	15494852	19371588
	short reads for alignment	1473330	2986750	4455805	5927702	7428697
	aligned to rRNA reference	999714	2027867	3023042	4022365	5042133
	uncovered pos 5S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 5.8S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 18S rRNA	2	1	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 28S rRNA	18	5	0	0	0
Sample 3 HeLa	trimmed reads	3882713	7764523	11644031	15516647	19387461
	short reads for alignment	2582027	5182220	7776132	10353556	12934621
	aligned to rRNA reference	2222928	4460722	6693085	8910528	11132036
	uncovered pos 5S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 5.8S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 18S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
	uncovered pos 28S rRNA	0	0	0	0	0

The bold font highlights the number of uncovered positions in the different datasets.