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Table 1 Summary statistics among seven highest performing assembly strategies

From: Optimizing de novo assembly of short-read RNA-seq data for phylogenomics

Assembly strategies

Percent reference coverage (bp)

Percent reference genes assembled to >200 bp

Percent reference genes assembled to ≥80%

Percent chimeric

Redundancy

Oases filter1-cap3-blast

26.50%

45.70%

10.52%

0.96%

2.42

Oases filter1&3-cap3-blast

27.67%

45.65%

11.73%

1.11%

2.41

SOAPdenovo-Trans k=21-cap3-blast

32.75%

45.62%

16.20%

2.21%

1.78

SOAPdenovo-Trans contigs cap3-blast

30.64%

46.62%

14.34%

1.06%

2.19

Trans-ABySS MK-cap3-blast

28.34%

42.93%

13.01%

1.39%

2.16

Trinity blast

26.22%

47.06%

9.58%

1.69%

3.11

Trinity pickH-cap-blast

23.19%

45.38%

8.35%

0.92%

1.89

  1. The best score for each column, measured as highest in reference coverage and lowest in chimera rate and redundancy, is in bold.