The R. philippinarum normalized cDNA library was sequenced with 454 GS FLX technology as shown in Figure 1 . Sequencing and assembly statistics are summarized in Table 1 . Briefly, a total of 975,190 raw nucleotide reads averaging 284.1 bp in length were obtained. Of these, 974,976 exceeded our minimum quality standards and were used in the MIRA assembly. A total of 842,917 quality reads were assembled into 51,265 contigs, corresponding to 29.9 megabases (Mb). The length of the contigs varied from 40 to 5565 bp, with an average length of 582.4 bp and an average coverage of 5.7 reads. Singletons were discarded, resulting in 37,093 contigs formed by at least 2 ESTs, and 26,675 of these contigs were longer than 500 bp. Clustering the contigs resulted in 1,689 clusters with more than one contig. The distribution of contig length and the number of ESTs per contig, as well as the contig distribution by cluster are all shown in Figure 2 .