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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Microbiol Methods. 2015 Apr 21;113:72–74. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2015.04.006

Table 1.

N50 values and number of contigs (in parentheses) of 8 oral streptococcal genomes from various de novo assemblers, CISA and MyPro with CISA and post-assemble.

S. gordonii
S. salivarius
S. parasanguinis
S. cristatus
S. mitis
G9B KB005 MGH413 CC5A CR3 OT25 SK137 SK145
Abyss 343,271
(15)
88,563
(58)
404,146
(22)
178,730
(43)
193,676
(30)
996,310
(8)
191,221
(27)
262,407
(29)
Edena 335,948
(16)
85,666
(43)
260,686
(22)
197,484
(33)
496,588
(21)
392,731
(12)
247,103
(21)
192,038
(19)
Velvet 483,119
(16)
88,921
(53)
398,175
(17)
191,762
(31)
192,370
(25)
427,010
(12)
211,003
(24)
257,188
(20)
SOAPdenovo 78,330
(80)
43,713
(108)
28,220
(138)
72,098
(70)
26,261
(141)
40,195
(89)
124,486
(50)
46,176
(79)
SPAdes 334,420
(381)
59,007
1093
141,257
(628)
183,527
(270)
89,833
(511)
377,595
(295)
310,465
(338)
152,531
(671)
CISA 344,471
(10)
89,104
(37)
404,146
(11)
203,298
(25)
496,588
(15)
1,509,483
(5)
372,102
(13)
257,489
(16)
MyPro
(CISA)
556,432
(7)
89,104
(37)
404,146
(11)
203,298
(22)
496,588
(15)
1,509,483
(5)
446,044
(7)
257,644
(19)
MyPro
(post-assemble)
1,555,780
(3)
195,368
(22)
2,007,789
(4)
554,931
(8)
540,612
(6)
1,509,483
(4)
1,089,748
(9)
566,607
(12)

Higher N50 value and lower number of contigs are indicative of superior genome assembly. Note that in comparison with other genome assembly software, MyPro consistently demonstrates values indicative of superior genome assembly (highlighted in bold).