Sequencing of 6.7 Mb of the melon genome using a BAC pooling strategy

BMC Plant Biology

Table 2 Details of the 454 FLX runs from which sequence data were obtained.

Pool	Sequencing plate regions	Library type	No. of reads	No. of Paired-end reads	Total length (bp)	Average read size (bp)
35 BACs
	2/2 ^a	Shotgun	445,232	-	110,498,601	248
	2/4	Paired end	89,392	3,152	23,214,413	260
	2/2	Paired end	557,452	126,681	139,772,537	251
23 BACs
	2/2	Shotgun	261,304	-	64,679,158	247
	3/8	Paired end	155,166	56,990	40,110,640	259

^aIncludes 8,046 reads obtained from the titration process of the samples as well as 20,627 reads from a 1/2 region that was poorly sequenced

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