Figure 2

Initial exploration of maximum contig coverage vs. genomic characteristics. The diameter of each bubble positively correlates with genome length, and its color represent its complexity group; s1a0 represents the unmodified genomes, ‘s’ denotes number of siblings and ‘a’ the nucleotide transition rates employed (a1; α = 0.0025 intra-species. a2; α = 0.01 inter-species). Only genomes longer than 1700 nt are shown (see methods). Genome coverage; for each complexity group (color) no apparent trend of increasing maximum contig coverage (Y-axis) with genome coverage (X-axis) is observed. Genome size; for each complexity group (color) no apparent trend of increasing maximum contig coverage with decreasing bubble size (genome length) is observed. Number of sibling genomes; for each transition rate (a1, a2) the number of sibling genomes (s2, s8) seems to influence maximum contig coverage values attained (e.g. blue vs. purple). Degree of relatedness; transition rates employed had a profound effect on maximum contig coverage values obtained (e.g. green vs. blue).