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Table 2 Statistics of assembly for the final set of contigs: total size of contigs, shortest and largest contigs, mean and median contig size and the N50 contig length are expressed in base pairs

From: Whole body transcriptomes and new insights into the biology of the tick Ixodes ricinus

Statistic

Assembly

Number of contigs

179,316

Total size of contigs (bp)

130,913,381

Shortest contig (bp)

301

Longest contig (bp)

20,233

Number of contigs > 0.5 kbp

79,235

Number of contigs > 1 kbp

29,911

Number of contigs > 10 kbp

19

Mean contig size (bp)

730

Median contig size (bp)

461

N50 contig size (bp)

875