def addSummaryMetrics(self, dict_to_plot):
        """ Take the parsed stats from the DamageProfiler and add it to the
        basic stats table at the top of the report """

        headers = OrderedDict()

        headers['std'] = {
            'title': 'Read length std. dev.',
            'description': 'Read length std. dev.',
            'suffix': 'bp',
            'scale': 'PuBu',
            'format': '{:,.2f}',
            'shared_key': 'read_length',
            'hidden': True
        }

        headers['median'] = {
            'title': 'Median read length',
            'description': 'Median read length',
            'suffix': 'bp',
            'scale': 'YlGnBu',
            'format': '{:,.2f}',
            'shared_key': 'read_length'
        }
        headers['mean_readlength'] = {
            'title': 'Mean read length',
            'description': 'Mean read length',
            'suffix': 'bp',
            'scale': 'PuBuGn',
            'format': '{:,.2f}',
            'shared_key': 'read_length',
            'hidden': True
        }

        self.general_stats_addcols(dict_to_plot, headers)
Take the parsed stats from the DamageProfiler and add it to the
        basic stats table at the top of the report