Consider these two hypothetical eukaryotic genome assemblies
Genome
1
Genome 2
Total assembly
length 2.67
Gb
2.18 Gb
Number of
contigs
150,076
78, 024
Number of predicted genes
21,432
20, 238
Contig
N50
42,007
bp
70, 024 bp
Number of
Scaffolds
12,483
6, 235
Scaffold
N50
9.23
Mb
20.10 Mb
1 Gb = 1,000,000,000 bp; 1 Mb = 1,000,000 bp
Based on these statistics, which genome assembly appears to be
of higher assembly quality? Why? (That is, which assembly is more
complete and why)?