Table 1

Fire ant EST and assembly statistics

Total number of sequence reads
28,133
     cDNA clones sequenced from 5' end
22,560
     Extra reads due to re-sequencing
5,573
High-quality sequences after filtering*
21,715
Average EST size after trimming (bp)
522.4
Total number of assembled sequences
11,864
     Number of contigs
4,319
          True contigs (from >2 different clones)
3,057
          Re-sequencing contigs
1,262
     Number of singletons
7,545
Number of putatively different fire ant sequences
<11,864
Average size of assembled sequences (bp)
600.5

*High quality sequences are those with greater than 200 bp after trimming of vector and primer sequences and with a phred value higher than 15. In addition, this set excludes artifactual sequences that were manually removed. Contigs composed of replicate sequences of only one clone

Wang et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R9   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-1-r9

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