An overlooked phenomenon: complex interactions of potential error sources on the quality of bacterial de novo genome assemblies

Table 1 Summary for the selected bacterial reference genomes

Bacteria	ID	Genome size (Mbp)	GC%	Unique ratio	NCBI assembly accession [Assembly version]
Bacillus subtilis	bsub	4.1	44.71	0.62	GCF_000009045.1 [ASM904v1]
Bacillus thuringiensis	bthu	5.51	36.23	0.44	GCF_000161495.1 [ASM16149v1]
Bifidobacterium longum	blon	2.46	60.84	0.53	GCF_004936435.1 [ASM493643v1]
Chlamydia trachomatis	ctram	1.04	41.78	0.51	GCF_000008725.1 [ASM872v1]
Clostridium botulinum	cbot	3.95	29.48	0.53	GCF_000063585.1 [ASM6358v1]
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis	cpse	2.32	52.93	0.47	GCF_000144675.2 [ASM14467v2]
Escherichia coli	ecol	5.01	51.79	0.62	GCF_000005845.2 [ASM584v2]
Lactococcus lactis	llac	2.45	36.86	0.90	GCF_003351805.1 [ASM335180v1]
Mycobacterium tuberculosis	mtub	4.4	65.86	0.58	GCF_000195955.2 [ASM19595v2]
Mycoplasma gallisepticum	mgal	0.97	32.65	0.89	GCF_000286675.1 [ASM28667v1]
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	pae	6.43	66.96	0.32	GCF_000006765.1 [ASM676v1]
Staphylococcus aureus	saur	2.82	33.78	0.64	GCF_000013425.1 [ASM1342v1]
Treponema pallidum	tpal	1.14	52.6	0.64	GCF_000246755.1 [ASM24675v1]

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