Table 1.
Number and length distributions of contiguous sequences by assembler. Metrics for total assembled sequences are shown for each sample type.
| Sample type | Contiguous sequences | Assembler |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABySS | Velvet | MetaIDBA | MetaCortex | ||
| Urine | Number | 157,518 | 28,886 | 4,597 | 819,081 |
| Average length (bp) | 91 | 222 | 94 | 79 | |
| Largest (bp) | 6,166 | 4,127 | 2,744 | 5,704 | |
| N50 (bp) | 119 | 244 | 78 | 76 | |
| Throat | Number | 621,363 | 113,317 | 217,483 | 1,917,401 |
| Average length (bp) | 67 | 160 | 100 | 79 | |
| Largest (bp) | 14,875 | 5,392 | 14,173 | 15,292 | |
| N50 (bp) | 75 | 175 | 78 | 76 | |
| Lung | Number | 1,496,223 | 706,515 | 14,007 | 9,358,870 |
| Average length (bp) | 69 | 118 | 86 | 77 | |
| Largest (bp) | 3,955 | 783 | 2,745 | 1,980 | |
| N50 (bp) | 76 | 116 | 73 | 76 | |