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Table 1 Comparative assembly contiguity and accuracy measures

From: A vertebrate case study of the quality of assemblies derived from next-generation sequences

Metric

Reference

454/Newbler

Illumina/SOAP

Q20 coverage (×)

6.1

11.1

68.6

N50 contig (kbp)

45

16

12

N50 supercontig (kbp)

11,000

584

314

BAC coverage (%)

98.4

96.0

95.6

Gene coverage (%)

97.7

93.0

93.5

Substitution rate (%)

0.0174

0.0179

0.0073

Deletion rate (%)

0.0009

0.034

0.0005

Insertion rate (%)

0.0012

0.0049

0.0002