Table 1

A comparison of three draft genome sequence assemblies

Assembly
Celera
HGP-nr
UCSC

Reference
[2]
[11]
[13]
Length (gigabases)
2.9
2.9
3.3
Sequenced bases (gigabases)
2.66
2.84
2.69
Number of gaps
21,684
181,079
145,514
Number of contigs
54,061
6,094
4,884
N50 length* (megabases)
0.8
2.8
2.3
HGP data version used
1/09/00
?/12/00
07/10/00

*N50 length is a measure of the contig length containing the 'typical' nucleotide. Specifically, it is the maximal length L such that 50% of all nucleotides lie in contigs of size at least L. See text for further details of the three assemblies.

Semple et al. Genome Biology 2001 2:comment2003.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-3-comment2003