Table 1 Summary of sequence mapping to the reference P. falciparum genome

Length of non-gap regions covered by reads

13,226,305

Length of 24 bp unique regions of the reference

264,683

Reference nucleotide composition

A: 37.87%, C: 13.35%, G: 14.62%, T: 34.16%

Reads nucleotide composition

A: 36.07%, C: 15.71%, G: 17.71%, T: 30.51%

Average depth across all non-gap regions

0.691

Average depth across 24 bp unique regions

0.514

Number of reference sequences

132,994

Length of reference sequences excluding gaps

53,277,940

Length of gaps in the reference sequences

1,299,037

Average coverage depth of reference sequence

5.7×