Table 1:

Statistics of raw sequenced reads

Statistic	ONT PromethION R9.4.1		PacBio Sequel		Short-read Illumina HiSeq 2000
	27×	64×	30×	62×
Number of reads	15,004,723	47,591,997	11,195,434	20,683,965	1,433,779,680
Total length of reads (bp)	80,770,821,288	193,027,803,978	92,229,416,062	187,914,740,184	144,811,747,680
N50 (bp)	12,736	9,190	13,426	14,568	101
Maximum contig length (bp)	774,322	1,160,324	65,865	169,910	101