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Table 1 Summary statistics for the genome assemblers tested for both data sets included in this study

From: Highly accurate long reads are crucial for realizing the potential of biodiversity genomics

Assembler

Assembly length (Gb)

Contig N50 (Mb)

Oxford Nanopore

 Canu v.1.8

1.2

0.16

 Flye v.2.9.1

1.41

0.5

 MaSuRCA v.3.1.1

1.23

0.7

 Wtdbg2 v.2.4

1.26

0.69

HiFi

 Flye v.2.9.1

1.62

0.23

 HiCanu v.1.9

1.25

3.9

 Hifiasm v.0.14

1.22

11.2

 Wtdbg2 v.2.4

1.09

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