Table 1 A list of assemblers used in this study

ABySS

http://www.bcgsc.ca/downloads/abyss/

v2.0.2

[50]

CLC

https://www.qiagenbioinformatics.com/products/clc-assembly-cell/

v5.0.5

https://www.qiagenbioinformatics.com/

Geneious

https://www.geneious.com/features/assembly-mapping/

v11.0.3

[22]

IDBA UD

https://i.cs.hku.hk/~alse/hkubrg/projects/idba_ud

v1.1.1

[43]

MEGAHIT

https://github.com/voutcn/megahit

v1.1.1-2

[25]

MetaVelvet

https://metavelvet.dna.bio.keio.ac.jp/

v1.2.02

[38]

MIRA

http://www.chevreux.org/mira_downloads.html

v4.0.2

[14]

Ray Meta

http://denovoassembler.sourceforge.net/

v2.3.0

[5]

SOAPdenovo2

http://soap.genomics.org.cn/soapdenovo.html

v2.04

[29]

SPAdes

http://cab.spbu.ru/software/spades/

v3.10.0

[4]

SPAdes meta

http://cab.spbu.ru/software/spades/ (variation of SPAdes applied with flag)

v3.10.0

[40]

Velvet

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/

v1.2.10

[58]

VICUNA

https://github.com/broadinstitute/mvicuna

v1.3

[53]