Research Article

A Scaffold Analysis Tool Using Mate-Pair Information in Genome Sequencing

Table 1

Mate-pair information in real test datasets. The proportion of mate-pair reads for V. vulnificus is about double that for M. succiniciproducens.

GenomeGenome lengthFoldNumber of readsNumber of mate-pairsProportion of mate-pair reads relative to number of reads

M. succiniciproducens 2.3 Mbp 13.2 about 25,000* 275 2.2%
V. vulnificus 5.1 Mbp 11.7 76,971 1,781 4.5%

*The numbers of reads for 4 versions of M. succiniciproducens show slight variation.