Hello, I am finding that every time I attempt to assemble my genome I am getting a large number of contigs. Any advice on what may be the issue? Thanks, Sarah Localtime: Wed Oct 31 10:18:12 2012 Assembly information: ===================== Num. reads assembled: 281466 Num. singlets: 0 Coverage assessment (calculated from contigs >= 5000): ========================================================= Avg. total coverage: 17.43 Avg. coverage per sequencing technology Sanger: 0.00 454: 17.78 IonTor: 0.00 PcBioHQ: 0.00 PcBioLQ: 0.00 Text: 0.00 Solexa: 0.00 Solid: 0.00 Large contigs (makes less sense for EST assemblies): ==================================================== With Contig size >= 500 AND (Total avg. Cov >= 6 OR Cov(san) >= 0 OR Cov(454) >= 6 OR Cov(ion) >= 0 OR Cov(pbh) >= 0 OR Cov(pbl) >= 0 OR Cov(txt) >= 0 OR Cov(sxa) >= 0 OR Cov(sid) >= 0 ) Length assessment: ------------------ Number of contigs: 703 Total consensus: 9852494 Largest contig: 108574 N50 contig size: 25927 N90 contig size: 7074 N95 contig size: 4188 Coverage assessment: -------------------- Max coverage (total): 137 Max coverage per sequencing technology Sanger: 0 454: 137 IonTor: 0 PcBioHQ: 0 PcBioLQ: 0 Text: 0 Solexa: 0 Solid: 0 Quality assessment: ------------------- Average consensus quality: 81 Consensus bases with IUPAC: 341 (you might want to check these) Strong unresolved repeat positions (SRMc): 0 (excellent) Weak unresolved repeat positions (WRMc): 0 (excellent) Sequencing Type Mismatch Unsolved (STMU): 0 (excellent) Contigs having only reads wo qual: 0 (excellent) Contigs with reads wo qual values: 0 (excellent) All contigs: ============ Length assessment: ------------------ Number of contigs: 829 Total consensus: 9966183 Largest contig: 108574 N50 contig size: 25581 N90 contig size: 6649 N95 contig size: 3580 Coverage assessment: -------------------- Max coverage (total): 137 Max coverage per sequencing technology Sanger: 0 454: 137 IonTor: 0 PcBioHQ: 0 PcBioLQ: 0 Text: 0 Solexa: 0 Solid: 0 Quality assessment: ------------------- Average consensus quality: 80 Consensus bases with IUPAC: 377 (you might want to check these) Strong unresolved repeat positions (SRMc): 0 (excellent) Weak unresolved repeat positions (WRMc): 0 (excellent) Sequencing Type Mismatch Unsolved (STMU): 0 (excellent) Contigs having only reads wo qual: 0 (excellent) Contigs with reads wo qual values: 0 (excellent)