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. 2014 Dec 13;15(1):1103. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1103

Table 1.

Quality assessment statistics of de novo assemblies of high throughput sequencing studies

Organisms (Genome Size Mb) Correctness metric #Mis-assembled (%) Reference
ABySS Velvet
E. coli (4.6) Less than 5 consecutive unaligned bases. >95% identity 10 (8) 9 (3) [29]
S. aureus (2.8) 6 (0.6) 5 (0.5)
H. acininychis (1.5) 8 (2.8) 2 (0.7)
S. aureus (2.9) Translocation, relocation and inversion 1 (0.4) 17 (37) [28]
R. sphaeroides (4.6) 3 (2) 6 (3)
H. sapiens (ch. 14) (88.3) 9 (0) 9156 (250)1

1 the number of scaffolds was greatly reduced compared to the number of contigs.