Table 7 Classification of the seven assemblers based on computational and quality metrics.
From: Assessment of de novoassemblers for draft genomes: a case study with fungal genomes
Assembler | Running time class | Memory consumption class | Quality class |
|---|---|---|---|
ABySS | medium-fast | memory-efficient | high-quality |
IDBA-UD | medium-fast | memory-efficient | high-quality |
Minia | fastest | most memory-efficient | low quality |
SOAP | fastest | less memory-efficient | medium-quality |
SPAdes | Slow | memory-inefficient | high-quality |
Sparse | fastest | most memory-efficient | medium-quality |
Velvet | fastest | less memory-efficient | high medium-quality |