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. 2000 Nov;10(11):1772–1787. doi: 10.1101/gr.gr-1375r

Table 4.

Varying Length

Len +/− (kb) Gap Clones Na 1e-08 1e-10







Ctgs F− F+ Ctgs F− F+






 40 10 455 55084 10 3k + 5kb 8.5k − 630 207 3.5k + 12k 16k − 1k 98
100 20 11 22033 26 212 + 27 295 − 62 145 358 + 71 531 − 122 54
100 60 62 22033 26 217 + 244 1.5k − 1k 292 380 + 668 3k − 1.5k 130
165 20 3 13353 43 48 + 3 60 − 8 76 95 + 4 106 − 10 65
165 50 4 13353 43 38 + 1 72 − 36 94 72 + 4 144 − 71 58
165 80 4 13353 43 33 + 5 171 − 133 92 55 + 13 319 − 251 28
200 50 0 11016 52 26 + 0 37 − 13 77 46 + 0 71 − 27 56

(Ctgs) contigs; (F−) false-negative; (F+) false-positive. 

The data set has perfect data, 20× coverage, and uses a 7 tolerance. 

a

Average number of bands per clone. 

b

A Nk is approximately N times 1000 clones.