A pipeline for completing bacterial genomes using in silicoand wet lab approaches

BMC Genomics

Table 3 Statistics of the assembling process

	Step 1	Step 2	Step 3	Step 4	Step 5	Step 6	Step 7
# Minigaps	27	27	15	13	1	0	0
Assembled nt in the big gap	0	0	12,511	12,511	12,511	35,746	35,746
Total nt assembled*	1,808,353	1,808,353	1,828,147	1,828,363	1,832,588	1,851,716	1,851,618

*: "N"s are not counted. Assemblies in Steps 1-6 have overlapping end sequences (terminal redundancy). As a result, the assembly in Step 6 appeared to be slightly bigger than the final assembly.

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