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Table 1 Overview of the five MinION® runs

From: Genome assembly using Nanopore-guided long and error-free DNA reads

 

Run1

Run2

Run3

Run4

Run5

DNA library

1

2

3

4

4

DNA fragment size

8 kb

20 kb

20 kb

20 kb

20 kb

Flowcell chemistry

R7

R7

R7.3

R7.3

R7.3

Number of reads

9,241

3,990

6,052

11,957

35,252

Cumulative size (Mb)

21.4

19.3

40.8

34.5

88.9

N50 size (bp)

5,388

11,288

10,217

12,729

13,967

Average size (bp)

2,314

4,830

6,746

2,886

2,523

% of 2D reads

6.5%

13.6%

43.3%

11.6%

9.7%

% of 2D bases

14.6%

27.1%

57.1%

42.7%

44.6%