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Table 2 Comparison between Xander and SAT assembly of ribosomal protein L2 (rplB) genes from HMP-defined community data

From: Xander: employing a novel method for efficient gene-targeted metagenomic assembly

Tool

SAT

Xandera

# contigs

4

6

# members covered

3

4

Median gene coverageb (%)

75.7

94.6

Max gene coverageb (%)

79.9

100

Median % nucleotide identity

97.8

99.8

Max % nucleotide identity

99.8

100

  1. aXander: kmer length of 45, prune 20, count 1 graph
  2. bGene coverage: length of the contigs compared to the closest defined community members