A pipeline for the de novo assembly of the Themira biloba(Sepsidae: Diptera) transcriptome using a multiple k-mer length approach

Table 2 Unique transcripts per k-mer length in paired-end assemblies using Velvet-Oases

K-mer length	Total transcripts	Transcripts absent from one or more assemblies	Transcripts unique to one assembly	% unique transcripts
17	21296	2331	464	2.2
19	20080	2105	397	2.0
21	17950	1875	410	2.3
23	16668	1686	316	1.9
25	15894	1434	280	1.8
27	15496	2398	313	2.0
29	15138	3855	116	0.8
Total	122522	15684	2296	1.9

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