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. 2011 Jun 14;27(13):i94–i101. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr216

Table 1.

Assembly results of E.coli 563 and five E.coli subspecies

Assembler E.coli 536 Five E.coli subspecies
Perfect de Bruijn graph Assembler
k 50 50
    No. of k-mers 4 859 649 11 533 119
    No. of branches 810 130 045
Velvet
    No. of contigs 226 13 516
    N50 178 914 875
    Coverage (%) 99.33 90.24
Abyss
    No. of contigs 337 27 428
    N50 32 440 849
    Coverage (%) 99.77 94.15
SOAPdenovo
    No. of contigs 247 21 589
    N50 125 404 713
    Coverage (%) 99.81 94.20
Meta-IDBA
    No. of contigs 256 9292
    N50 122 317 5781
    Coverage (%) 99.64 88.37

Simulated length-75 reads are sampled randomly from references with 1% error and 250 insert distance with a depth of 30. The value of k is set to 50 for all assemblers.