Assembly of large genomes using second-generation sequencing

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

Expected average contig length for a range of different read lengths and coverage values. Also shown are the average contig lengths and N50 lengths for the dog genome, assembled with 710-bp reads, and the panda genome, assembled with reads averaging 52 bp in length.

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  1. Published in Advance May 27, 2010, doi: 10.1101/gr.101360.109 Genome Res. 20: 1165-1173

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