Table 2

Effect of k on graph size. Effect of varying k on graph size.

K

Unique k-mers

Num Edges

Compacted Edges

Reduced Edges

20

20,537,274

20,658,206

451,718

338,121

25

20,717,553

20,741,818

205,858

149,018

30

20,758,869

20,764,256

154,965

114,028

Jackson et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S14   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S14