Table 3.

Assembly results of MegaGTA (using iterative de Bruijn graph) and Xander (merging contigs of three k-mer sizes)

	MegaGTA (iterates on k = 30,36,45)	Xander (Union of k = 30,36,45)
# of gene contigs	10	19
# of genes recovered	10	10
duplication ratio	1	1.79
# misassembled contigs	0	1
# partially unaligned contigs	1	2
# mismatches per 100kbp	13.52	453.05
Time (second)	277	2927
The gene fraction of each recovered rplB genes (%)
Acinetobacter_baumannii	98.77	84.77
Bacteroides_vulgatus	82.48	82.48
Deinococcus_radiodurans	99.64	99.64
Escherichia_coli	81.39	81.39
Propionibacterium_acnes	78.14	78.14
Rhodobacter_sphaeroides	98.21	98.21
Staphylococcus_aureus	99.64	99.64
Staphylococcus_epidermidis	99.64	99.64
Streptococcus_mutans	99.29	99.29
Streptococcus_pneumoniae	63.31	62.23