Table 1.

Metrics of publicly available eggplant genome assemblies: Smel v1.0 from Hirakawa et al. (2014), S. aethiopicum from Song et al. (2019), Smel v3.0 from Barchi et al. (2019b), Smel CL from Wei et al. (2020a), and Smel v4.0 (this paper)

	Smel v1.0	S. aethiopicum	Smel v3.0	Smel CL	Smel v4.0
Size of assembly (Gb)	0.83	1.02	1.21	1.07	1.16
Contig N50 (kb)	14.3	25.2	678.7	5260	702.9
Scaffold N50 (Mb)	0.065	516.1	2.9	89.64	92.1
% Ns	4.75	–	28.23	0.38	9.10
% anchored	–	–	77.5%	92.7%	95.6%
Protein‐coding genes	85 446	34 906	34 916	36 582	34 916
% anchored genes	0%	0%	81.4%	97.4%	96.6%
Annotated BUSCO genes	74.8%	77.8%	96.9%	94.2%	96.9%