Table 2.
Results of screening 8 publicly available draft genomes for microbial contaminants. GenBank accession numbers are shown for each genome along with the number of contigs and the size of the draft assembly. The last column shows the sequencing technology used for each project.
| Genome | # of contaminant contigs |
Total contaminant length (bp) |
Range of E-values |
Total # of contigs |
Genome size (Mbp) |
Technology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Schistosoma haematobium (GCA_000699445.1) |
4 | 9,415 | 4E-71–0.0 | 49,195 | 35 | Illumina |
|
Cynoglossus semilaevis (GCA_000523025.1) |
2 | 904 | 1E-6–5E-22 | 62,912 | 470 | Illumina |
|
Caenorhabditis brenneri (GCA_000143925.2) |
2 | 19,677 | 0.0 | 13,373 | 190 | ABI solid sequencing |
|
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (GCA_000002595.2) |
227 | 254,869 | 0.0 | 11,385 | 120 | Sanger |
|
Citrus clementina (GCA_000493195.1) |
0 | 0 | N/A | 8,962 | 301 | Sanger |
|
Anopheles darlingi (GCA_000211455.3) |
0 | 0 | N/A | 13,857 | 174 | 454 |
|
Auricularia delicata TFB-10046 SS5 (GCA_000265015.1) |
0 | 0 | N/A | 4,884 | 75 | Illumina |
|
Schmidtea mediterranea (GCA_000691995.1) |
0 | 0 | N/A | 118,433 | 701 | Illumina |