Table 3.

PacBio Subread length and fragment size results

Organism	Polymerase read mean length (kb)	Number of reads	Fragment mean length (kb)	Number of subreads	Subread mean length (kb)	Subread min/max length (bp)
P. falciparum	12.3	525,996	9.5	578,188	9.6	1–50,720
E. coli	6.8	131,520	5.7	142,673	6.2	1–28,647
L. infantum	17.0	311,471	11.7	445,620	10.3	35–64,072
T. thermophilus NAR1	16.5	60,929	11.3	98,247	10.2	35–62,446
M. hassiacum	17.0	69,152	9.4	141,382	8.3	35–57,888
T. lapidicaptus	14.7	107,224	4.9	382,405	4.0	1–69,567