Research Article

A De Novo Genome Assembly Algorithm for Repeats and Nonrepeats

Table 1

The performances of assembling different kinds of repeats.

Sequence (Containing)RepeatContigs (kb)Accuracy (%)Genome coverage (%)
TRCCNRCNNCN50Max CN-accuracyRep-accuracyC-accuracy

Interspersed repeats63, 6, 8, 5, 10, 8739.12610099.9100100.9
Tandem repeats66, 18, 9, 4, 20, 95113.231.310099.8100101
Compound repeats12Appendix11013.932.910099.8100101

Three sequences with length  kb, 500 kb, and 1 Mb containing different types of repeats. Contigs of repeat and nonrepeat are generated independently by SWA with basic parameters: read length , filtered times = 1, sliding window size , and . Contigs smaller than 200 are removed.