Table 2 Summary statistics for the intermediate and final assembly steps

Normalized and non-normalized 454 reads combined

125,828

85,117,028

676

100 – 20,566

720

Velvet (k-mer length=31)

237,177

162,204,944

684

100 – 16,096

1,555

Velvet (k-mer length=37)

188,901

127,287,870

674

100 – 27,112

1,496

Velvet (k-mer length=41)

158,033

111,038,497

703

100 – 27,083

1,554

Velvet (k-mer length=45)

133,348

93,061,666

698

100 – 25,388

1,464

Velvet (k-mer length=51)

87,923

63,748,786

725

100 – 23,585

1,377

Velvet (k-mer length=55)

50,903

40,710,596

800

100 – 23,018

1,386

Reference Assembly (CAP3)

70,173

109,360,184

1,558

100 – 27,089

2,767