The first Cyclospora cayetanensis lineage A genome from an isolate from Mexico

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Comparison of assembly metrics among C. cayetanensis isolate USDA_Mex32 de novo assembly, USDA_Mex32 re-scaffolded assembly, and reference assembly GCA_020976615.1

	USDA_Mex32 de novo assembly	USDA_Mex32 re-scaffolded assembly	GCA_020976615.1 assembly
No. of scaffolds	1,644	277	313
Total length	44,485,211	44,747,036	44,586,677
Gaps %	0.02	0.70	0.0
N50^*	176	24	24
L50^†	75,213	524,769	523,712
Maximum scaffold length	371,830	1,976,689	1,973,156
No. of scaffolds > 50 Kb	282	123	120
Percent of genome in scaffolds > 50 Kb	64.9	97.9	97

^† L50 = The length at which scaffolds of equal or greater length comprise 50% of the assembly
^*N50 = The smallest number of scaffolds whose length sum is equal to 50% of the assembly size

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