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. 2012 Apr 19;13(Suppl 6):S1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-S6-S1

Table 3.

Assembly performance on the human genome

k = 31 k = 63 k = 127 k = 31 k = 63 k = 127
Error free data 1% error rate

Memory peak (GB) 14 16 19 30 49 51
> 100 bp (# k contigs ) 3,195 1,984 714 2,727 1,554 1,359
 Sum (G bp) 2.37 2.79 2.83 2.29 2.72 2.88
Mean size (bp) 743 1,406 3,961 839 1,751 2,121
N50 (bp) 2,130 6,479 79,906 2,121 6,319 49,572
N90 (bp) 244 631 10,441 304 872 1,021
Longest contig (bp) 50,800 124,293 801,692 47164 124,292 537,017
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