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Table 1 Results when our novel strategy is applied to a real short read dataset

From: A new strategy for better genome assembly from very short reads

Measurements

Assemblies

Total length

Average length

Contig number (> 1 kbp)

Longest length

Velvet

3,912,568

15,840

247

162,643

ABySS

4,099,096

35,035

117

243,520

SOAPdenovo

3,919,811

13,851

283

154,821

DBG

3,927,655

18,974

207

241,821

Reliable A-contigs

3,754,796

3,516

1068(> 0.5 kbp)

39,380

Hybrid assembly

4,304,581

45,793

94

241,821