Table 1.

Short read datasets for assembler assessment

	Bacillus	Bordetella	E.coli	Yoruban male
library	160bp	198bp*	200bp	200bp
read length	36	36	36	36~42
no. of reads	16,633,474	12,549,138	20,816,448	3,758,659,514
coverage	142×	111×	162×	44×
genome size	4,215,606	4,086,189	4,639,675	3,101,788,170**

* uses an estimated insert size from assembly due to the unavailability of the real library insert size; ** uses the total length of all scaffolds in the GRCh37/hg19 build human reference sequence.