TABLE 1.

Assembly statistics of the Express 617 genome in comparison with three previously published B. napus genome assemblies.

	Darmor-bzh v4.1 (Chalhoub et al., 2014)	Darmor-bzh v8.1 (Bayer et al., 2017)	ZS11 (Sun et al., 2017)	Tapidor (Bayer et al., 2017)	Express 617
Total genome size (Mb)/percentage of Ns	850/13.17%	850/13.16%	976/7.05%	636/5.16%	925/0.09%
Length of pseudochromosomes (Mb)	645	798	854	627	765
Length of unplaced scaffolds (Mb)	204	51	120	8.4	160
Number of scaffolds prior to pseudochromosome construction	20702	-	3460	21280	1632
Length of N50 scaffold prior to pseudochromosome construction (bases)	763688	-	602220	197031	4882293