N50 Supercontig Sizes for Whole Genome Shotgun/Hybrid Assemblies of Eukaryotic Genomes
| Species | Genome (Gb) | Sequencing type | Sequence coverage | Clone coverage | Number of haplotypes | N50 supercontig (Mb) |
| D. melanogaster | 0.12 | hybrid | 16.6X | 65.5X* | 1 | 14.5* |
| F. rubripes | 0.37 | whole genome | 5.6X | 13.0X | 4 | 0.04* |
| O. sativa | 0.43 | whole genome | 4.2X | 7.7X | 1 | 0.01 |
| M. musculus | 2.5 | whole genome | 6.5X | 47.2X | 1 | 16.9 |
| H. sapiens | 2.9 | hybrid | 8.3X | 40.0X | >12 | 4.0* |
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For assemblies of whole genome shotgun (WGS) data, and hybrid assemblies of WGS data together with clone-based sequence, some finished, we show the N50 supercontig size (exclusive of gaps), together with various parameters of the data set which might influence the N50 value. Asterisked entries were approximated from other data given in the relevant publication. (N50 values provide a standard measure of assembly connectivity, reflecting the nature of the bulk of the assembly rather than the cutoff which defines the smallest reportable assembly unit.) References: Myers et al. 2000, Aparicio et al. 2002, Yu et al. 2002, Venter et al. 2001.
