Table 1.
Comparison of draft genome assemblies of four species of brown algae
| Species | Cladosiphon okamuranus | Nemacystus decipiensc | Ectocarpus siliculosusd | Saccharina japonicae | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| strain | Sb | Ka | Oa | Ca | |||
| Assembled genome size (Mb) | 130 | 135 | 140 | 143 | 154 | 197 | 537 |
| No. of scaffolds | 541 | 532 | 631 | 291 | 685 | 30 | 13,327 |
| N50 Scaffold (kb) | 416 | 816 | 752 | 1051 | 1863 | 6528 | 252 |
| Number of contigs | 31,858 | 5803 | 5915 | 6950 | 411,597 | – | 29,670 |
| N50 contig size (bp) | 21,705 | 52,668 | 28,060 | 44,571 | 6265 | – | 58,867 |
| No of genes | 12,999 | 12,511 | 12,548 | 12,182 | 15,156 | 17,380 | 18,733 |
| Average gene length (bp) | 7949 | 8430 | 8817 | 8636 | 7902 | 7542 | 9587 |
| Average number of introns per genes | 9.14 | 9.51 | 9.64 | 9.56 | 10.24 | 6.96 | – |
| Average intron length (bp) | 530 | 557 | 578 | 579 | 588 | 740 | – |
| Repeated sequences (%) | 11.2 | 9.86 | 11.53 | 12.58 | 8.8 | 22.7 | 10.57 |
| GC (%) | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 56 | 54 | 50 |
| Cegma Completeness (%) | 84.3 | 86.3 | 86.7 | 86.7 | 84.3 | 72.6 | 45.6 |
| Cegma Partial (%) | 91.9 | 93.6 | 94.4 | 94.4 | 93.6 | 87.5 | 79 |
| Assembler | Newbler | Newbler | Newbler | Platanus | Platanus | – | – |
Four strains of Cladosiphon okamuranus are classified as the order Chordariales; Nemacystus decipiens, the order Spermatochnaceae; Ectocarpus siliculosus, the order Ectocarpales; and Saccharina japonica, the order Laminariales
aThe present study; bNishitsuji et al., [4]; cNishitsuji et al., [5]; dCormier et al., [6]; eYe et al., [7]