Table 1.
Assembly performance comparison on the fruit fly genome
| ( k = 31 ) | ABySS | Velvet | SOAPdenovo | SparseAssembler |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time (hr) | 5.5 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Memory peak (GB) | 46 | 31 | 14 | 2 |
| > 100 bp (# contigs) | 23,992 | 23,104 | 20,580 | 20,429 |
| Sum (kbp) | 113,580 | 113,574 | 112,395 | 113,650 |
| Mean size (bp) | 4,734 | 4,916 | 5,461 | 5,563 |
| N50 (bp) | 18,317 | 19,576 | 25,461 | 28,355 |
| N95 (bp) | 66 | 61 | 67 | 74 |
| Corr NG50 (bp) | 18,317 | 19,576 | 25,461 | 28,355 |
| Corr NG95 (bp) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Longest contig (bp) | 162,263 | 190,104 | 195,709 | 273,977 |
| Coverage (%) | 96.24 | 96.82 | 95.53 | 97.83 |
| Misjoins | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
The performance on the fruit fly genome dataset, genome size: 120,291 kbp. Programs are run using default settings.