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Table 1 Assembly performance comparison on the fruit fly genome

From: Exploiting sparseness in de novo genome assembly

( k= 31 )

ABySS

Velvet

SOAPdenovo

SparseAssembler

Time (hr)

5.5

3

3

1

Memory peak (GB)

46

31

14

2

> 100 bp (# contigs)

23,992

23,104

20,580

20,429

   Sum (kbp)

113,580

113,574

112,395

113,650

Mean size (bp)

4,734

4,916

5,461

5,563

N50 (bp)

18,317

19,576

25,461

28,355

N95 (bp)

66

61

67

74

Corr NG50 (bp)

18,317

19,576

25,461

28,355

Corr NG95 (bp)

0

0

0

0

Longest contig (bp)

162,263

190,104

195,709

273,977

Coverage (%)

96.24

96.82

95.53

97.83

Misjoins

0

6

0

0

  1. The performance on the fruit fly genome dataset, genome size: 120,291 kbp. Programs are run using default settings.