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Table 2 The assembly contiguity (scaffold NG50 and NGA50) and correctness (number of misassemblies) metrics with and without correction using Tigmint prior to scaffolding with ARCS

From: Tigmint: correcting assembly errors using linked reads from large molecules

Sample

Assembly

NG50 (Mbp)

NGA50 (Mbp)

Misass.

Reduction

HG004

ABySS

3.65

3.09

790

NA

 

ABySS+Tigmint

3.47

3.09

574

216 (27.3%)

 

ABySS+ARCS

9.91

7.86

823

NA

 

ABySS+Tigmint+ARCS

26.39

16.43

641

182 (22.1%)

HG004

DISCO+ABySS

10.55

9.04

701

NA

 

DISCO+ABySS+Tigmint

10.16

9.04

666

35 (5.0%)

 

DISCO+ABySS+ARCS

29.20

17.05

829

NA

 

DISCO+ABySS+Tigmint+ARCS

35.31

23.68

804

25 (3.0%)

HG004

DISCO+BESST

7.01

6.14

568

NA

 

DISCO+BESST+Tigmint

6.77

6.14

493

75 (13.2%)

 

DISCO+BESST+ARCS

27.64

15.14

672

NA

 

DISCO+BESST+Tigmint+ARCS

33.43

19.40

603

69 (10.3%)

HG004

Supernova

38.48

12.65

1005

NA

 

Supernova+Tigmint

17.72

11.43

923

82 (8.2%)

 

Supernova+ARCS

39.63

13.24

1052

NA

 

Supernova+Tigmint+ARCS

27.35

12.60

998

54 (5.1%)

HG004

Falcon

4.56

4.21

3640

NA

 

Falcon+Tigmint

4.45

4.21

3444

196 (5.4%)

 

Falcon+ARCS

18.14

9.71

3,801

NA

 

Falcon+Tigmint+ARCS

22.52

11.97

3,574

227 (6.0%)

NA12878

Canu

7.06

5.40

1688

NA

 

Canu+Tigmint

6.87

5.38

1600

88 (5.2%)

 

Canu+ARCS

19.70

10.12

1736

NA

 

Canu+Tigmint+ARCS

22.01

10.85

1,626

110 (6.3%)

Simulated

ABySS

9.00

8.28

272

NA

 

ABySS+Tigmint

8.61

8.28

217

55 (20.2%)

 

ABySS+ARCS

23.37

17.09

365

NA

 

ABySS+Tigmint+ARCS

30.24

24.98

320

45 (12.3%)

  1. ABySS and DISCOVARdenovo are assemblies of Illumina sequencing. Supernova is an assembly of linked read sequencing. Falcon is an assembly of PacBio sequencing. Canu is an assembly Oxford Nanopore sequencing. Data simulated with LRSim is assembled with ABySS