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Table 2 Performances of assembly programs with tomato Sanger ESTs (minimum overlap: 40 bp, minimum overlap percent identity: 97%, maximum overhang: 30 bp)

From: iAssembler: a package for de novo assembly of Roche-454/Sanger transcriptome sequences

  

iAssembler

CAP3

MIRA

TGICL

Phrap

Newbler

No. unigenes

53,734

89,590

84,993

51,502

43,434

49,792

Average unigene length (bp)

920.6

735.2

741.4

920.1

963.7

997.7

No. type I errors

identity < 97%

5

85

26,224

2,602

11,223

8,059

 

overhang > 30 bp

3

156

8,282

5,743

34,148

21,540

No. type II errors

254

14,396

12,075

3,036

3,909

5,868

Total assembly errors

262

14,637

46,581

11,381

49,280

35,467

Run Time (minute)

634

369

230

450

175

42