Table 3 Assembly statistics for initial drafts and assisted assemblies for a selection of 2× mammal assemblies
From: Assisted assembly: how to improve a de novo genome assembly by using related species
|  | Four projects from Mammal24 - 2× assemblies | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Otolemur garnetti (bushbaby) | Loxodonta africana (African elephant) | Oryctolagus cuniculus (rabbit) | Cavia porcellus (guinea pig) | ||||
| Â | Initial | Assisted* | Initial | Assisted* | Initial | Assisted* | Initial | Assisted* |
Bases assembled (%) | 76.1 | 85.7 | 77.5 | 84.2 | 80.1 | 85.3 | 75.6 | 82.4 |
Total contig length (Mb) | 1,672 | 1,905 | 2,089 | 2,314 | 1,925 | 2,080 | 1,658 | 1,853 |
N50 contig (kb) | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
N50 scaffold gapped (kb) | 13.6 | 71.6 | 11.8 | 37.0 | 13.3 | 53.9 | 11.0 | 44.5 |
N50 scaffold ungapped (kb) | 9.1 | 37.6 | 8.4 | 15.9 | 9.5 | 20.1 | 7.6 | 12.2 |