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.