Hi everyone, I have a question mark in my mind and hopefully someone will give the answer. We are about start de-novo assembly a plant with illumina reads. The company offered us 2x300 paired end reads and the output size about 15Gb. We are not sure but probably genome size of this plant is 800mb. My question is, do you think I can assembl this genome with the mira? If so, do you thing I can get good contig with satisfying lengths? Thank you for your answers. Mehmet -- Mehmet Göktay, MSc student Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Izmir Institute of Technology 35430, Urla, Izmir, TURKEY (For the website of Plant Molecular Genetics Laboratory please click here <http://plantmolgen.iyte.edu.tr/>.)