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 |
[i] The N50 length is the length L such that 50% of the bases are contained in contigs of size at least L.