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Table 4 Deviation of assembly length produced by the assemblers from the assembly length of the reference as computed using aligned length reported by QUAST and assembly lengths for benchmark and contamination sets

From: SKESA: strategic k-mer extension for scrupulous assemblies

Benchmark set

Measure

SKESA

SPAdes

MegaHit

Median

2.72

10.91

5.59

Maximum

135.75

775.14

407.78

Average

4.61

57.98

24.23

Deviation in contamination set

Contamination

SKESA

SPAdes

MegaHit

None

1.33

1.68

1.35

3x

1.36

1.68

1.33

6x

1.33

1.68

1.30

9x

1.36

1.67

1.47

12x

1.41

1.68

2.05

15x

1.44

1.68

2.96