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Table 1 Data sets used in the evaluation of transcriptome assembly, with organism denoting the organism, type denoting whether the organism is model or non-model, libraries denoting the total number of libraries, size denoting the total number of bases in all the reads after quality trimming, reference denoting the publication that describes the libraries, and tick marks within assembly on 32 GB machines denoting the algorithms that can be used for assembly on machines with 32 GB physical memory

From: A scalable and memory-efficient algorithm for de novo transcriptome assembly of non-model organisms

     

Assembly on 32 GB machines

Organism

Type

Libraries

Size

Reference

SOAPdenovo-Trans

Trans-ABySS

ASplice

S. pombe

Model

32

16.9 G

[8]

√

√

√

A. thaliana

Model

5

16.1 G

[29]

√

√

√

D. melanogaster

Model

245

158 G

[30]

 

√

√

H. glaber

Non-model

13

60.5 G

[31]

 

√

√

C. rufifacies

Non-model

66

590 G

New data

  

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