Research Article

A Transcriptome Post-Scaffolding Method for Assembling High Quality Contigs

Table 2

Number of contigs used for scaffolding from different organisms.

Organism Number of matched original contigs Number of scaffoldsNumber of contigs/scaffold% Reduction

D. frontalis 15,095 4962.1770
D. ponderosae 16,457 4332.1574
D. citri 16,732 1652.2190
I. ricinus 7,787 712.0457

Number of contigs/scaffold: average number of original contigs per scaffold.
% Reduction: percentage of “redundant” contigs removed.