A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

Table 1 Overall assembly statistics for the UMD2 assembly of B. taurus

Total size of all contigs	2,857,605,192
Total size of all placed contigs	2,612,820,649
Total size of unplaced contigs	244,784,543
N50 contig size (based on 2.5 Gb genome size)	93,156
N50 contig count	7,906
Number of contigs >10,000 bp	44,433
Total size of contigs >10,000 bp	2,563,627,935

N50 contig size is the value X such that at least half of the genome is contained in contigs of size X or larger. N50 contig count is the number of contigs of size X or larger.

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