Research Article

The Draft Genome and Transcriptome of the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus

Table 1

Limulus genome and transcriptome assembly statistics.

GenomeTranscriptome

Total number of reads620,743,244484,378,406
Number of reads matched573,146,494385,105,364
Number of reads not matched47,596,75099,273,042
Total size of assembly1.48 Gb0.14 Gb
N752,0531,012
N504,7361,862
N259,5233,497
Largest contig68,98823,854
Total number of contigs744,12293,348