Table 1 The sequencing datasets used in the experiments.

Species¹¹

E. coli

B. cereus

Grouper

Genome size

4.6 Mbp

5.2 Mbp

~1.1 Gbp²

Read length

2 × 300 bp

2 × 300 bp

2 × 200 bp

Mean quality score

34

34

35

% Bases with quality score > 30

83%

85%

92%

Depth

2853x

2669x

~110-120x²