Table 1 Feature comparison of KAT and Merqury
From: Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies
| Â | KAT | Merqury |
|---|---|---|
K-mer analysis | ||
 Count | Y | Y |
 Filter | Y | Y |
 Compare | Y | Y |
 %GC | Y | – |
 Fitting distributions | Y | – |
 Other set operations, querying | – | Y |
Assembly statistics | ||
 Finding repetitive regions | Y | – |
 Contamination detection | Y | – |
 K-mer copy-number spectrum | Y | Y |
 K-mer assembly, haplotype spectrum | – | Y |
 Consensus quality (QV) | – | Y |
 K-mer completeness | – | Y |
 Phase blocks and switch error rate | – | Y |
Plotting | ||
 Stacked histograms | Y | Y |
 Unstacked histograms | – | Y |
 K-mer coverage | Y | Y |
 %GC Heatmaps | Y | – |
 Hap-mer fractions (blob plots) | – | Y |
 Browser tracks (BED, TDF) | – | Y |
 Nx or NGx contig/block sizes | – | Y |