Figure 4

Effect of different parameter settings on assemblies. Heat maps visualizing the assembly results of 454 sequences of the four complete reference BACs (top: set 1; bottom: set 2) by MIRA under different combinations of hss (hash saving steps, X-axis) and bph (bases per hash, Y-axis). BACs from left to right are: 184G09, 259I16, 631P08, 711N16. Black fields indicate the hss/bph combinations resulting in the largest contig for the respective BAC, dark to light gray fields mark values producing a contig with >90%, >50% and <50% of the largest contig length, respectively. White fields represent meaningless combinations (hss > bph).