Assembly

Dolphinleaping through surf This is the first release of the low-coverage 2.59X assembly of the dolphin (tursiops truncatus). The genome sequencing is provided by the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine and assembly is provided by the Broad Institute.

The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 length for supercontigs is 157.58 kb and is 9.72 kb for contigs. The total number of bases in supercontigs is 2.49 Gb and in contigs is 2.30 Gb.