Assembly
About
Echinococcus multilocularis is a Fox-tapeworm, the larval stage of which causes alveolar echinococcosis in humans.
Due to its relative ease of cultivation, EMU is the first of the cestodes (tapeworms) to be sequenced and will serve as a reference for future projects.
E. multilocularis has an estimated genome size of 120MB with a GC content of 43%.
This was the first large scale sequencing project at Sanger to combine all three sequencing technologies (Capillary, 454 and Illumina) alongside a WGS approach.
Karyotype info. Show to have 9 chromosomes
More information
General information about E.multilocularis can be found in Wikipedia.
Assembly Wheel
Assembly stats plots are described at github.com/rjchallis/assembly-statsAssembly Badge:
| 3 | 3 | 1 |
X | Y | Z
- 10x : N50 Contig (kb)
- 10y : N50 Scaffold (kb)
- Z = 1|0 : Assembled to Chromosomes level
eg. 3 | 4 | 1 => 1Mb+ Contig, 10Mb+ Scaffold, Chromosome level
Overall Assembly Statistics
| TOPLEVEL | |
|---|---|
| Total Length | 219,067,414 |
| Longest Component | 30,897,400 |
| N50 | 10,785,489 |
| N50 Count | 7 |
| Component>1kb | 120 |
| Component Count | 120 |
| SCAFFOLD | |
|---|---|
| Total Length | 114,077,414 |
| Longest Component | 15,716,476 |
| N50 | 4,914,057 |
| N50 Count | 6 |
| Component>1kb | 945 |
| Component Count | 979 |
| CONTIG | |
|---|---|
| Total Length | 113,451,554 |
| Longest Component | 15,716,476 |
| N50 | 4,914,057 |
| N50 Count | 6 |
| Component>1kb | 1,424 |
| Component Count | 1,515 |


