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. 1999 Sep;9(9):868–877. doi: 10.1101/gr.9.9.868

Table 4.

Performance of CAP3 and PHRAP

Program Data seta Length of longest contig No. of large contigs Total length of gaps Total no. of internal errorsb






CAP3 3XA 6189 57 52,885 443
PHRAP 3XA 6396 54 38,146 529
CAP3 3XB 12,368 44 71,761 71
PHRAP 3XB 13,116 47 60,436 228
CAP3 3XC 10,709 49 54,229 227
PHRAP 3XC 11,406 45 34,727 332
CAP3 3XD 11,408 43 67,586 115
PHRAP 3XD 11,350 49 60,312 240
CAP3 5XA 10,582 42 27,965 249
PHRAP 5XA 18,268 31 14,396 252
CAP3 5XB 26,034 17 10,405 100
PHRAP 5XB 33,693 18 7,322 115
CAP3 5XC 20,939 29 20,520 172
PHRAP 5XC 20,912 27 16,617 261
CAP3 5XD 14,219 35 23,635 46
PHRAP 5XD 14,696 33 17,113 129
CAP3 8XA 71,025 12 4,681 83
PHRAP 8XA 71,395 8 1,061 80
CAP3 8XB 53,127 8 883 59
PHRAP 8XB 53,078 7 542 36
CAP3 8XC 52,134 8 752 4
PHRAP 8XC 76,922 6 774 6
CAP3 8XD 72,690 7 1,241 35
PHRAP 8XD 102,523 6 648 60
CAP3 10XA 91,380 4 0 28
PHRAP 10XA 91,329 3 0 11
CAP3 10XB 167,655 1 0 5
PHRAP 10XB 138,551 2 0 7
CAP3 10XC 106,631 5 321 44
PHRAP 10XC 77,747 4 330 12
CAP3 10XD 79,900 4 468 2
PHRAP 10XD 79,978 3 346 2
a

The number in the name of a data set is the estimated depth of coverage for the data set. 

b

An error in a consensus sequence is internal if it is not within 500 bases of either sequence end.