From: Subtractive assembly for comparative metagenomics, and its application to type 2 diabetes metagenomes
Metrics
Direct assembly
Subtractive assembly
IDBA-UD (individual)a
MEGAHIT (co-assembly)
IDBA-UD
MEGAHIT
Total contigsb
2,422,739
2,645,944
510,220
2,175,502
Total base
3,365,389,115
2,200,436,161
512,470,294
1,434,840,759
N50
2170
1054
1146
677