Solanum melongena Raw sequence reads

Through a combination of Illumina sequencing and optical mapping, we obtained a high quality genome sequence of the 67/3 inbred line. The resulting hybrid assembly has a length of 1.2 Gbases and N50 of 3.2 Mb. Thanks to the re-sequencing of the inbred line '305E40' and GBS of an F6 RIL population obtained by crossing the two lines, >90% of the sequence was anchored to the eggplant chromosomes. Comparative analyses with the tomato, potato and pepper genomes highlighted major evolutionary events.