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Table 1 Short read datasets for assembler assessment

From: Parallelized short read assembly of large genomes using de Bruijn graphs

 

Bacillus

Bordetella

E.coli

Yoruban male

library

160bp

198bp*

200bp

200bp

read length

36

36

36

36~42

no. of reads

16,633,474

12,549,138

20,816,448

3,758,659,514

coverage

142×

111×

162×

44×

genome size

4,215,606

4,086,189

4,639,675

3,101,788,170**

  1. * uses an estimated insert size from assembly due to the unavailability of the real library insert size; ** uses the total length of all scaffolds in the GRCh37/hg19 build human reference sequence.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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