350 Mb genome • Draft assemblies generated from short-read data: – Illumina® System − 200 bp paired end, 100 bp, two libraries, ~80X − 10 kb mate pair, 36 bp, two libraries, ~15X − 3 kb mate pair, 36 bp ~4X – 454® System − 15 runs, some mate pair ~19X • Hybrid HGAP strategy – Contigs from Illumina assembly, 454 assembly, and 454/Illumina assembly (1X each) – 60 SMRT® Cells from size-selected 20 kb library, P4-C2 chemistry on PacBio® RS II (20X coverage) 454® and Illumina® Assembly Hybrid HGAP Assembly with PacBio® reads Improvement Number of Contigs 52,273 6,810 7.7X N50 Contig Size (bases) 10,406 146,050 14.7X Largest Contig (bases) 113,585 1,666,490 14X Number of assembled bases (Mb) 270 320 Closer to predicted size Collaboration with UIUC Aphid