1. Assemblies of Staphylococcus aureus (genome size 2,872,915). The best value for each column is shown in bold. For all assemblies, N50 values are based on the same genome size. The Errors column contains the number of misjoins plus indel errors >5bp for contigs, and the total number of misjoins for scaffolds. Corrected N50 values were computed after correcting contigs and scaffolds by breaking them at each error. See the evaluation section in the text for details on how errors were identified:

Assembler

 

Contigs

Scaffolds

Num

N50

(kb)

Errors

N50

corr. (kb)

Num

N50

(kb)

Errors

N50

corr.

(kb)

ABySS

302

29.2

19

24.8

246

34

1

28

Allpaths-LG

60

96.7

20

66.2

12

1,092

0

1,092

Bambus2

109

50.2

190

16.7

17

1,084

0

1,084

CABOG

Could not run: incompatible read lengths in one library

MSR-CA

94

59.2

34

48.2

17

2,412

3

1,022

SGA

1252

4.0

10

4.0

456

208

1

208

SOAPdenovo

107

288.2

65

62.7

99

332

0

288

Velvet

162

48.4

42

41.5

45

762

17

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