Table 3 Comparison of physical map assemblies obtained with the SNaPshot and WGP technologies at their optimum final cut-offs (1e-25 for SNaPshot; 1e-11 for WGP).

Total number of contigs

631

434

Average contigs size (Kb)

374^a

469^b

Median contigs size (Kb)

295^a

374^b

Number of singletons

2112 (18.8%)

4145 (36.9%)

Coverage in length

236 Mb ± 65^a

199 Mb ± 42^b

Comparison with 12 reference sequenced contigs

Number of chimerical contigs for 10 Mb

0.6

0.6

Percentage of mis-assembled BACs

9.5%

2.7%