Figure 3From: A pipeline for the de novo assembly of the Themira biloba(Sepsidae: Diptera) transcriptome using a multiple k-mer length approachFrequency distribution of transcript lengths by assembly. A plot of the quantity of transcripts with a given length per assembly shows differences in assembly output and a pronounced peak representing the median transcript length. The meta-assembly was generated by the re-assembly of all k-mer lengths using CAP3. Meta-assembly improved transcript length, as indicated by the leading edge of the graph. Meta-assembly also reduced the number of short contigs, compared to the single k-mer assemblies. Trinity automatically removes contigs smaller than 200 base pairs.Back to article page