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Table 5 A summary of the subtractive assembly and direct assembly results for T2D datasets

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

  1. aThe assemblies of individual samples were added for direct assembly by IDBA-UD
  2. bOnly contigs of at least 300 bp were considered for the statistics