Table 2.

Simulated 124 bp E. coli

	Corrections	Trim corrections	Mis-corrections	Error reads kept	Time (min)
Quake	283769.4	6581.2	243.0	393.6	11.8
SOAPdenovo	276770.4	2942.6	7019.4	5490.2	16.9
Shrec	165942.7	0.0	33140.3	96626.7	97.1
EULER	228316.4	16577.4	3763.0	414.8	6.9

Simulated E. coli 124 bp reads at 40× coverage averaged over five runs. Column descriptions are the same as Table 1. Quake corrects more reads while mis-correcting far fewer reads and keeping fewer reads with errors than all programs.