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. 2020 Sep 14;21:631. doi: 10.1186/s12864-020-07041-8

Table 3.

Hybrid assemblies of bacterial strains with real Illumina short reads and Oxford Nanopore long reads using MaSuRCA, SPAdes, and Unicycler compared to their corresponding reference genomes

Strain Number of contigs Total length (bp) GC content (%)
MaSuRCA SPAdes Unicycler Reference MaSuRCA SPAdes Unicycler Reference MaSuRCA SPAdes Unicycler Reference
Escherichia coli O26:H11 CFSAN027343 2 (2 cir.; 1 dead) 585 97 (3 cir.; 0 dead) 2 5,803,063 5,674,058 5,722,981 5,778,004 50.67 50.57 50.67 50.68
Escherichia coli O26:H11 CFSAN027350 5 (0 cir.; 2 dead) 488 108 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 2 5,604,298 5,512,883 5,522,347 5,593,613 50.65 50.53 50.57 50.64
Klebsiella variicola CFSAN086180 1 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 89 1 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 1 5,536,665 5,543,412 5,536,929 5,536,659 57.53 57.53 57.53 57.53
Klebsiella pneumonia CFSAN086181 1 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 56 1 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 1 5,221,910 5,230,821 5,221,909 5,221,909 57.58 57.53 57.58 57.58
Enterobacter cancerogenus CFSAN086183 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 113 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 2 4,990,691 5,003,034 4,992,376 4,992,376 55.59 55.56 55.59 55.59
Salmonella Bareilly CFSAN000189 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 80 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 2 4,806,601 4,816,325 4,806,603 4,808,805 52.21 52.23 52.21 52.22
Citrobacter braakii CFSAN086182 1 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 66 1 (1 cir.; 0 dead) 1 4,917,488 4,939,416 4,917,491 4,917,511 52.05 51.99 52.05 52.05
Cronobacter sakazakii CFSAN068773 3 (2 cir.; 1 dead) 75 4 (4 cir.; 0 dead) 4 4,577,802 4,597,231 4,581,781 4,581,781 56.73 56.71 56.73 56.73
Listeria monocytogenes CFSAN008100 2 (2 cir.; 1 dead) 18 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 2 3,102,056 3,140,938 3,137,527 3,108,102 37.95 37.91 37.90 37.91
Staphylococcus aureus CFSAN007894 4 (1 cir.; 6 dead) 75 3 (3 cir.; 0 dead) 2 2,749,203 2,774,416 2,763,803 2,757,659 32.86 32.92 32.82 32.84
Campylobacter jejuni CFSAN032806 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 55 2 (2 cir.; 0 dead) 2 1,811,805 1,774,178 1,814,450 1,782,911 30.53 30.67 30.54 30.53
Campylobacter coli CFSAN032805 3 (3 cir.; 0 dead) 51 3 (3 cir.; 0 dead) 3 1,750,134 1,765,016 1,750,172 1,750,177 31.41 31.56 31.41 31.41

acir., circularized contigs

bdead, dead ends