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Table 1 Sequence data obtained from three NGS platforms for the E.faecium strain.

From: Optimizing hybrid assembly of next-generation sequence data from Enterococcus faecium: a microbe with highly divergent genome

NGS Platform

Number of Reads

Read Type

Average Read Length (bp)

Total Base (bp)

Estimated Coverage Depth

454

424,370

SR

212

89,966,440

~28 ×

GAIIx

21,525,592

PE

70

1,506,791,440

~500 ×

SOLiD

26,568,626

SR

50

1,328,431,300

~400 ×