Table 1.

Summary statistics of the assemblies used to assess the performances of the Mulit-K de novo assembly method

Method	k-mer	Contig > 100	N50	Max length	Total length (Mb)	Average contig size
single K	58	3328	65	3324	2.076	87
	54	22 397	159	5597	8.197	127
	52	37 207	233	6087	12.602	140
	50	51 041	239	8297	18.059	142
	48	61 097	241	8045	23.245	144
	46	69 717	242	8358	28.235	145
	44	77 038	239	11 062	33.133	142
	42	82 806	236	10 004	37.633	139
	40	87 673	233	7322	41.928	135
	38	91 694	228	10 092	45.964	130
	34	97 153	220	13 873	53.206	119
multi K		118 764	257	13 880	58.075	159

These statistics correspond to the set of contig > 100 bp. k-mer, required length of identical overlap match between two reads by ABySS; N50, contig length–weighted median; max length, length of the longest contig; (Total length) summed length of all contig > 100 bp.