Table 2 Metagenome assembly statistics.

From: Evaluating the mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental resistomes without metagenomics

Assembler

Contigs

Max contig length (bp)

Contigs longer than 1500 bp

N50 (min 1500 bp)

Reads mapping to contigs longer than 1500 bp (%)

Year

metaSPADES

2.9 × 106

241 837

6.1 × 104

2636

19.9

2013

metaSPADES

5.6 × 105

13 970

3.7 × 103

1997

3.6

2009

metaSPADES

5.1 × 105

11 779

1.6 × 103

2061

1.7

2006

MEGAHIT

3.1 × 106

38 991

6.3 × 104

2297

20.4

2013

MEGAHIT

5.8 × 105

13 953

1.0 × 104

2015

5.8

2009

MEGAHIT

5.3 × 105

12 057

6.4 × 103

1908

2.6

2006

IDBA-UD

1.3 × 106

79 435

1.0 × 105

2622

22.7

2013

IDBA-UD

1.8 × 105

13 045

6.8 × 103

2188

5.4

2009

IDBA-UD

1.3 × 105

10 326

3.3 × 103

2165

2.9

2006