A new strategy for better genome assembly from very short reads

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 2 Results when our novel strategy is applied to two sets of simulated metagenomes

	Total length		Longest length		Average length		Contig number		Mis-assembled number
	16×	32×	16×	32×	16×	32×	16×	32×	16×	32×
SOAPdenovo	1,053,950	2,152,668	11,585	18,572	1,692	2,613	623	824	0	0
Velvet	3,541,492	3,479,492	17,858	13,775	2,359	2,359	1501	1475	9	6
ABySS	5,696,753	5,567,101	24,687	39,688	2,079	2,784	2740	2000	22	10
DBG	1,966,330	2,998,013	12,098	18,572	1,293	1,875	1520	1599	0	0
Hybrid	2,091,714	3,081,039	14,651	18,572	1,907	2,434	1097	1266	0	0

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