Rapid quantification of sequence repeats to resolve the size, structure and contents of bacterial genomes

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Total genome sizes of five E. coli strains estimated by PFGE and icosihenamer analysis

	Genome size (Mb)
Method	Strain A_03_34	Strain B_04_28	Strain C_04_22	Strain D_04_27	Strain E_01_37
PFGE^a	4.869	5.047	5.149	5.423	5.268
21-mer analysis of sequencing reads	4.776	4.935	5.181	5.219	5.502

^aRestriction digests of genomic DNAs with I-Ceu I endonuclease yielded seven restriction fragments for each genome, the sizes of which are listed in Additional file 3: Table S3.

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