Table 1.
A comparison of assemblies of E. coli 35-base Illumina reads, unpaired and mate-paired
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N50: The size of the contig such that 50% of the assembly is contained in contigs of size N50 or greater. Length (# contigs) (>20,000 nt), total length of all contigs longer than 20,000 and total number of such contigs. We found that Velvet produces optimal results when run as Velvet(27,5).
