Table 1.

Five species included in this benchmarking study with the size of the reference genome and the used reference genome version which has been taken for the simulation of the read datasets.

Species	Arabidopsis thaliana	Brassica napus	Glycine max	Solanum tuberosum	Zea mays
Genome Size (bp)	135,670,229	738,357,821	955,377,461	727,424,546	2,104,350,183
Genome version	TAIR10	AST_PRJEB5043_v1	Glycine_max_v2.1	SolTub_3.0	B73 RefGen_v4
Repeats in %	<23 (Flutre et al., 2011)	~48 (Liu et al., 2018)	~57 (Schmutz et al., 2010)	~49 (Mehra et al., 2015)	~75 (Wolf et al., 2015)
Citation	Lamesch et al., 2012	Chalhoub et al., 2014	Schmutz et al., 2010	Xu et al., 2011	Schnable et al., 2009

The proportion of repetitive sequences is given as the estimated value over the genome.