Why is N50 used as an assembly metric

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Why N50?

Maybe it is worth remembering why we even have N50 as a statistic. The final assembly for any genome project, i.e. the one that is described in a paper or uploaded to a database, is not necessarily the biggest assembly that was generated.

 

Chris Upton + helpers‘s insight:

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