Sporobolus stapfianus: Insights into desiccation tolerance in the resurrection grasses from linking transcriptomics to metabolomics

Table 2 A summary of the 454 Life Science (Roche) sequencing analysis of the cDNA derived from pooled RNA isolated from leaf tissues subjected to different levels of dehydration and rehydration of young leaves of S. stapfianus

	Ss 454 GS-FLX 1	Ss 454 GS-FLX 2	Combined
Number of raw reads	435,320	408,458	843,778
Number of clean reads	343,902	349,334	693,236
Percentage of clean reads	79	85.5	82.2
Mean length of clean reads	211	212	211-212
Median length of clean reads	219	222	219-222
Total nucleotides of clean reads	72,585,449	74,102,590	146,688,039
Contigs	29,237	21,453	50,690
Reads used to generate contigs	251,297	238,847	490,144
Total contig length	11,050,617	8,422,243	19,472,860

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