Table 1. Data used for the scaffolding experiments, including short and long reads from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and reads from two different individual humans.

The Illumina reads were paired-end reads of a fixed length. N50 read length is computed by summing all read lengths, and determining the value N50 such that 50% of that total length is covered by reads of N50 or longer.

	Number of reads	Genome coverage	N50 read length
A. thaliana
Illumina	46,129,480	115x	300
PacBio P6-C4	3,448,228	118x	7,205
H. sapiens CHM13
Oxford Nanopore	29,468,868	118x	56,695
H. sapiens HG01243
Illumina paired-end	1,307,137,030	59x	150
PacBio CLR	23,672,554	113x	28,837
Oxford Nanopore	16,239,849	58x	44,052