Table 2.

New N. meningitidis genomes recently characterized^a

Name	Location and date	No. of contigs	Assembly length (Mb)	No. of genes
M13220	Philippines, January 2005	82	2.20	2,108
M10699	Oregon, May 2003	40	2.18	1,978
M15141	New York City, August 2006	50	2.28	2,141
M9261	Burkina Faso, April 2002	79	2.21	2,261
M17062b	Minnesota	565	2.53	3,565

^aThese genomes, except M17062, are reported in their final form in reference 23.

^bThe assembly of M17062 is fragmented, likely due to the 454 multiplexing process. Due to the fragmentation, its true genome size is likely to be smaller than the reported assembly size, and the true number of genes is likely to be fewer.