Table 1 Genome assembly and annotation of the Syrian hamster

Assembly size (Gb)

2.31

Protein-coding Genes

(Total predicted)

21,387

Genome size (Gb)

2.56

Protein-coding Genes

(Total annotated)

21,193

Coverage

Illumina reads:98.25 × (307.53Gbp);

Nanopore long reads: 100.44 × (314.37Gbp);

Hi-C reads:110.91 × (336.06Gbp)

noncoding RNA

27,002

Contig N50 (bp)

35,650,180

microRNA

20,796

Number of contigs

8,600

tRNA

2,896

Scaffold N50 (bp)

114,594,012

rRNA

926

Number of scaffolds

8,303

snRNA

2,384

GC content

41.79%