Research Article

Facile, High Quality Sequencing of Bacterial Genomes from Small Amounts of DNA

Table 2

Genome assembly statistics and comparison to reference genomes for insertions/deletions and rearrangements.

OrganismAssembly methodLibrary preparation methodStarting DNA quantity, ng# of contigsTotal bpsRelative to the reference genomes
DeletionsInsertionsTotal indelsRearrangements

B. anthracis AllpathsNEBNext100215,358,8171706,5186,68880
TruSeq1000235,348,29617050,76250,93292
IDBANEBNext100485,349,3201,52516,82718,352102
TruSeq1000415,483,70987,0191,83888,857104

E. coli AllpathsNEBNext100825,312,04675848,75349,511222
TruSeq1000965,269,84976080,22780,987238
IDBANEBNext1001995,216,101111152,190152,301414
TruSeq10002075,242,71022475,92676,150446

B. thailandensisā€‰
A
AllpathsNEBNext10266,652,40510012,21312,31380
NEBNext100276,650,88814313,04213,185154
TruSeq1000776,603,6366,29427,23733,531252
IDBANEBNext101196,575,40620638,41938,625276
NEBNext1001176,575,50035138,38238,733280
TruSeq10002716,582,6588,32035,33743,657586

B. thailandensisā€‰
B
AllpathsNEBNext10236,660,01014412,57612,72082
NEBNext100276,651,38516312,27812,44186
TruSeq1000536,655,44615716,51716,674204
IDBANEBNext101296,579,84974945,20145,950264
NEBNext1001256,579,74923644,27944,515262
TruSeq10002816,587,9318,69445,99754,691612