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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 2.

N50 values and number of contigs (in parentheses) of 10 oral streptococcal genomes from various de novo assemblers and MyPro with CISA.

S. salivarius
S. sanguinis
S. mitis
UC3162 I141 VT517 COL85/1862 NCTC10712 OP51 SK141 UC921A UC5873 UC6950A
Abyss 102,123 (44) 205,597 (27) 201,754 (34) 258,394 (23) 294,670 (13) 325,986 (10) 325,653 (11) 224,590 (25) 1,371,488 (26) 140,468 (66)
Edena 112,782 (36) 79,082 (48) 169,164 (47) 190,728 (39) 293,981 (16) 321,991 (9) 244,280 (13) 224,608 (26) 202,683 (43) 137,264 (69)
Velvet 93,598 (72) 282,985 (23) 202,625 (80) 398,214 (33) 293,951 (16) 1,177,164 (15) 1,229,524 (12) 226,431 (22) 1,380,504 (34) 141,356 (88)
SOAPdenovo 31,809 (166) 79,987 (66) 21,141 (307) 36,934 (137) 28,642 (143) 84,194 (58) 94,143 (54) 41,314 (126) 11,579 (376) 28,278 (224)
SPAdes 88,327 (69) 292,810 (17) 96,152 (91) 335,392 (42) 257,414 (20) 79,761 (227) 315,886 (13) 223,855 (28) 1,374,450 (27) 95,372 (75)
MyPro (CISA) 116,758 (25) 331,769 (11) 290,644 (25) 722,753 (14) 572,071 (10) 1,183,284 (11) 1,236,221 (6) 226,881 (14) 1,375,455 (12) 142,219 (35)

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).