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. 2009 Aug;16(8):1101–1116. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0047

Table 3.

Assembly Results (N50)

Data set Length (kb) Number of contigs One error per Total contigs
50 × 3k 23.3 55 385 kb 916
75 × 3k 23.9 51 257 kb 832
75 × 6k 23.5 53 330 kb 910
100 × 3k 24.8 51 385 kb 814
100 × 6k 23.5 53 331 kb 899
200 × 6k 23.5 53 463 kb 896

Length is the N50 score, number is the number of contigs longer than the N50 length. The errors are computed as the total length of errors over the total size of all contigs. Evaluation of the assembly quality for the various datasets using N50.