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Table 2 Effect of the choice of k-mer size on the single-end contig N50 for the giant panda assembly using ABySS 1.1.0

From: Assembling genomes using short-read sequencing technology

k-mer size

27*

30

32

34

35

36

37

38

Contig N50 (bp)

1,381

1,724

1,863

1,940

1,952

1,942

1,924

1,860

  1. *The k-mer size used for the reported giant panda genome assembly [1].