Table 2

Effect of the choice of k-mer size on the single-end contig N50 for the giant panda assembly using ABySS 1.1.0

k-mer size

27*

30

32

34

35

36

37

38

Contig N50 (bp)

1,381

1,724

1,863

1,940

1,952

1,942

1,924

1,860

*The k-mer size used for the reported giant panda genome assembly [1].

Jackman and Birol Genome Biology 2010 11:202   doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-1-202