The oil palm genome was assembled using Newbler 454 technology. Below are the statistics for the Pisifera genome build-5 (P5)
| Total number of scaffolds | 40,360 |
|---|---|
| Total number of sequences | 618,218 |
| Scaffold average / N50 / largest (bp) | 38,036 / 1,045,414 / 22,100,610 |
| Total number of assembled reads | 145,089,284 (78.4%) Assembled: 138,823,335 Partial: 6,265,949 |
| Total number of unassembled reads | 39,861,390 (21.5%) Singleton: 2,251,739 Repeat: 36,135,239 Outlier: 1,474,412 |
| Number of bases | 1,535,150,282 bp |