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. 2015 Mar 27;9(11):2336–2348. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2015.37

Table 1. Assembly results of metagenomic reads from the soil and lake sediment SIP fractions.

  Soil
 Lake Sediment
  Light Heavy Light Heavy
Total number of contigs 80 987 28 382 53 331 22 094
Total contig length (bp) 103 612 778 49 050 429 65 621 201 28 430 434
Average contig length (bp) 1279 1728 1230 1286
N50 (bp) 1567 2 708 1449 1628
Median (bp) 769 934 767 753

Raw sequences obtained by Illumina sequencing were assembled into contigs using Ray Meta (Boisvert et al., 2012).