Table 1.

Comparative assembly statistics of preliminary assemblies generated using CLC-GWB, Velvet and SOAPdenovo

Assembler	Sex	Optimal kmer (bp)	# contigs	N50 (bp)	% readsa
CLC-GWB	Female	60	251,115	3684	96.0
	Male	60	306,273	2487	93.5
Velvet	Female	75	317,916	1095	47.0
	Male	75	310,045	956	37.9
SOAPdenovo	Female	75	1,953,762	451	68.8
	Male	75	2,010,365	351	58.6

For each assembly pipeline, different kmers were used to generate the optimal assembly, and the main metric for determining quality of assembly was the combination of the number of contigs and the N50

^a% reads = the number of reads that mapped to each assembled genome