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Table 2 Comparison of average sensitivity for various contig assembly tools

From: CAR: contig assembly of prokaryotic draft genomes using rearrangements

Tool

Closest reference

Top 10

Top 20

CAR (PROmer)

62.71 (67.50)

49.87 (56.25)

37.33 (32.25)

SIS (PROmer)

60.82 (67.50)

48.53 (54.55)

36.14 (30.40)

Mauve Aligner

60.19 (65.22)

46.40 (46.88)

32.86 (22.47)

r2cat

61.64 (78.13)

43.56 (38.52)

30.01 (20.51)

CAR (NUCmer)

57.04 (73.68)

43.38 (39.01)

28.19 (7.41)

SIS (NUCmer)

55.41 (72.73)

42.70 (36.67)

27.56 (6.40)

OSLay

48.38 (62.50)

34.43 (12.90)

21.18 (0.60)

fillScaffolds (NUCmer)

49.04 (56.41)

34.23 (21.83)

21.36 (4.53)

fillScaffolds (PROmer)

45.19 (50.00)

33.18 (25.93)

21.76 (8.75)

CONTIGuator

45.66 (50.00)

31.53 (15.43)

19.29 (0.68)

Projector2

42.58 (40.17)

29.18 (20.49)

18.63 (5.00)

ABACAS

33.42 (28.57)

23.64 (0.38)

13.01 (0.00)

  1. This table is sorted in descending order according to the average values shown in the “Top 10” column, where the values in parentheses are medians.