Extended Data Fig. 8 |. Phase block analysis of zebra finch pseudo-haploid assembly.

a, Phase blocks in the primary assembly after mapping the reads to both the primary and alternate assemblies. b, Phase blocks in the primary assembly after mapping the reads to both the primary only. c, Phase blocks in the alternate assembly after mapping the reads to both the primary and alternate assemblies. d, Phase blocks in the alternate assembly. In all cases, the application of Merfin filtering minor heterozygous variants (green) leads to block sizes better or comparable to prior polishing methods alone (blue). Unpolished assembly in gray. Results of Merfin without filtering in red. A genome size of ~1.03 Gbp derived from Genomescope2 was used to normalize NG* values.