Table 1.

Assessment of genome assembly quality for both approaches reveals a vast improvement in the assembly despite a low nanopore sequencing coverage (9X).

Metric	Ion PGM only	Hybrid
Assembly length	6602 908	6773 804
No. of contigs (>1000 bp)	338	16
N50	36 090	973 739
N75	19 947	745 006
Longest contig	122 046	1654 292