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Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Dec 14;34(1):64–69. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3416

Table 1.

Assembly of the human gut metagenome. Short and long read libraries were assembled with the Soapdenovo2 and Celera assemblers, respectively. The results were merged using Minimus2 to produce a joint assembly. Long reads assemble into significantly longer contigs that contain about twice as many genes.

	Short	Long	Joint
Number of contigs	92,247	24,199	34,786
Largest contig (Mbp)	0.63	3.94	3.94
Total length (Mbp)	233	610	656
N50 (Kbp)	8.7	37.3	49.2
Number of predicted genes	274,600	523,358	552,680
Average number of genes/contig	2.98	21.62	15.88