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Table 4 Performance of MegaGTA, Xander and MEGAHIT on the rhizosphere soil metagenomic sample

From: MegaGTA: a sensitive and accurate metagenomic gene-targeted assembler using iterative de Bruijn graphs

 

MegaGTA

Xander

MEGAHIT

Gene rplB

 Cluster Identity

99%

95%

99%

95%

99%

95%

 # of gene contigs aligned by Framebot

17,668

5079

15,933

4237

578

465

 Total length (bp)

13.9 M

3.96 M

12.5 M

3.32 M

378 k

311 k

 Median length (bp)

822

822

822

822

639

660

 # of matched reference genes

491

427

456

385

208

193

 Median % aa identity

76.73

76.00

77.46

76.90

77.50

77.07

Gene nifH

 Cluster Identity

99%

95%

99%

95%

99%

95%

 # of gene contigs aligned by Framebot

33

11

31

10

9

5

 Total length (bp)

27.8 k

9225

25.3 k

8412

7368

4464

 Median length (bp)

888

888

882

883.5

930

930

 # of matched reference genes

13

10

12

8

8

5

 Median % aa identity

91.55

90.54

92.96

91.19

85.14

83.99

Gene nirK

 Cluster Identity

99%

95%

99%

95%

99%

95%

 # of gene contigs aligned by Framebot

1336

392

1242

336

203

179

 Total length (bp)

1.09 M

321 k

1.02 M

277 k

170 k

153 k

 Median length (bp)

687

787.5

690

748.5

735

750

 # of matched reference genes

55

53

50

47

71

66

 Median % aa identity

89.29

86.61

89.06

87.30

66.41

65.97