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. 2021 Sep 14;50(D1):D785–D794. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab776

Table 1.

Criteria used to establish the quality score of genome assemblies

Criteria Score
Assembled from type strain of species 1 000 000
Effective type strain of species according to NCBI 100 000
NCBI representative of species 10 000
Assembled from type strain of subspecies 1000
Complete genome 100
CheckM quality estimate Completeness – 5 × contamination
MAG or SAG –100
Contig count –5 × (no. contigs/100)
Undetermined bases –5 × (no. undetermined bases/10 000)
Full length 16S rRNA gene 10