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A comparison of three draft genome sequence assemblies |
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| Assembly |
Celera |
HGP-nr |
UCSC |
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| 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 |
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*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 |
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