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. 2012 May 16;5:243. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-243

Table 3.

Comparison of Arapan-S with ABySS, SSAKE, Velvet, QSRA, Minimus and Mira assemblers on four Benchmark Virus Genomes

Species Assembler Contigs ≥ 800 bp Total
length
Mean size (bp) N50 (bp) Largest contig (bp) Genome coverage (%)
Bovine Respiratory Coronavirus AH187
Arapan-S
1
30937
30937
30937
30937
99.90
 
ABySS
1
30924
30924.00
30924
30924
99.85
 
SSAKE
9
27428
3047.56
3447
9868
88.57
 
Velvet
3
30951
10317.00
25461
25461
99.94
 
QSRA
8
29617
3702.125
-
11695
95.63
 
Minimus
1
31026
31026
31026
31026
100.18
 
Mira
8
28803
3600.37
3192
12305
93.51
Calf-giraffe Coronavirus
US/OH3/2006
Arapan-S
1
30836
30836
30836
30836
99.53
 
ABySS
2
30652
15326.00
18956
18956
98.94
 
SSAKE
11
17005
1545.91
892
2683
54.89
 
Velvet
3
30951
10317.00
25461
25461
99.91
 
QSRA
2
2107
1053.5
-
1173
6.80
 
Minimus
1
30979
30979
30979
30979
100.00
 
Mira
5
33850
6770
20763
20763
109.28
Waterbuck Coronavirus US/OH-WD358-TC/1994
Arapan-S
1
30995
30995.00
30995
30995
100.00
 
ABySS
1
30944
30944.00
30944
30944
99.86
 
SSAKE
13
21780
1675.38
1063
5343
70.27
 
Velvet
8
12505
1563.12
967
2162
40.34
 
QSRA
5
4638
927.6
-
1174
14.96
 
Minimus
1
30995
30995
30995
30995
100.00
 
Mira
6
34011
5668.5
10510
10983
109.73
White-tailed Deer Coronavirus US/OH-WD470/1994
Arapan-S
1
31018
31018.00
31018
31018
99.99
 
ABySS
2
30943
15471.50
21535
21535
99.75
 
SSAKE
5
13925
2785.00
956
6100
44.89
 
Velvet
10
17800
1780.00
1090
3430
57.38
 
QSRA
8
7422
927.75
-
1323
23.93
 
Minimus
1
31019
31019
31019
31019
100.00
  Mira 10 34892 3489.2 6174 9191 112.48

Only contigs whose lengths ≥ 800 were selected. When the assembler generated only one contig, the N50 value and the mean size are equal to the size of the corresponding contig. Genome coverage was calculated by dividing the total length by the genome length (EBI).