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. 2020 May 25;11:624. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00624

TABLE 4.

Assembly and Benchmarking Universal Single Copy Orthologs (BUSCO) statistics for the MaSuRCA, Flye, wtdbg2, Canu and Hi-C scaffolded Canu assemblies.

Metrics Assembler
MaSuRCA1 Flye wtdbg2 Canu Canu Hi-C1
Number of contigs 2,850 3,009 4,659 3,183 1,325
Total size of the assembly (bp) 914,348,993 813,404,858 867,633,014 964,774,081 965,003,581
Longest (bp) 10,067,120 11,408,532 7,183,448 9,632,068 113,540,806
Shortest (bp) 2,256 178 2,807 1,072 603
Mean (bp) 320,824 270,324 186,227 303,102 728,305
Median (bp) 39,479 100,839 15,813 63,149 35,305
N50 (bp) 1,317,304 698,928 1,176,597 1,114,696 98,884,393
L50 169 282 201 223 5
G+C% 36.84 36.77 36.89 37.06 37.05

BUSCO metrics

%Complete COGS found [%single, %duplicate] 90.0% [85.8%, 4.2%] 90.6% [88.1%, 2.5%] 86.0% [83.5%, 2.5%] 97.3% [95.1%, 2.2%]2 96.7% [95.0%, 1.7%]

1Scaffold statistics are reported for the MaSURca and Canu Hi-C assembly. All other assembly statistics are contig metrics.