Fig. 4

Relationships between various DNA, sequencing and assembly parameters on assembly completeness. The distributions of ten different parameters that might influence assembly success were investigated in samples that were deemed to be ‘good’ (blue) or ‘poor’ (orange) (as described in Methods and depicted in Fig. 1). Individual points represent individual samples; box plots indicate the median (centre line), interquartile range (box) and 1.5× interquartile range (‘whiskers’). The p-values shown indicate the results of t-tests for differences in the means of the two distributions in each case