ARACHNE: A Whole-Genome Shotgun Assembler

Table 2.

Characterization of Contigs

Genome H. influenzae S. cerevisiae D. melanogaster Human 21 Human 22
Full Coverage (∼10-fold)
 Number of contigs 12 88 678 187 230
 Mean length (kb) 150 132 174 178 142
 N50 length (kb) 413 258 324 387 353
Half Coverage (∼5-fold)
 Number of contigs 142 865 8774 2807 2917
 Mean length (kb) 13 13 13 11 11
 N50 length (kb) 18 18 19 17 15
  • The N50 length is the length L such that 50% of the bases are contained in contigs of size at least L.

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