Table 1.
Details of six bovine genome assemblies
| Assembly (Species) | Sex* | Primary data used for the assembly† | Type of assembly | Assembler | Contig N50 (Mb) | Scaffold N50 (Mb) | Length of the autosomes |
| Hereford (Bos taurus taurus) | F | PacBio (80-fold CLR) | Primary | Falcon | 21 | 108 | 2,489,385,779 |
| Angus (Bos taurus taurus) | M | PacBio (136-fold CLR) | Haplotype-resolved | TrioCanu | 29.4 | 102.8 | 2,468,157,877 |
| Highland (Bos taurus taurus) | F | PacBio (125-fold CLR) | Haplotype-resolved | TrioCanu | 71.7 | 86.2 | 2,483,452,092 |
| Original Braunvieh (Bos taurus taurus) | F | PacBio (28-fold HiFi) | Primary | Hifiasm | 86.0 | 96.3 | 2,607,746,442 |
| Brahman (Bos taurus indicus) | F | PacBio (136-fold CLR) | Haplotype-resolved | TrioCanu | 23.4 | 104.5 | 2,478,073,158 |
| Yak (Bos grunniens) | F | PacBio (125-fold CLR) | Haplotype-resolved | TrioCanu | 70.9 | 94.7 | 2,478,308,164 |
*
Female (F) and male (M) assemblies contain either X or Y chromosomal sequences.
†
Additional data may have been used to polish the assemblies and facilitate scaffolding; CLR: continuous long reads; HiFi: high-fidelity.