Figure 2.

GC-bias plots for three microbial genomes. Top: plots showing the relative coverage GC-bias for Illumina MiSeq, Ion Torrent PGM, and Pacific Biosciences RS on the P. falciparum (19% GC), E. coli (51%), and R. sphaeroides (69%) genomes (Table 2, data sets 1 to 9). Unbiased coverage would be represented by a horizontal line at a relative coverage = 1 (black dashed line). Relative coverage is only plotted for GC percentages for which there are at least 1,000 100-base windows in the genome. Bottom: the GC composition distribution of each genome.