[wgs-assembler-users] Correlation between long unitigs after unitigging and long contigs after scaffolding?

[Ole K. T. <o.k...@bi...>]

Hi,
I have several assemblies running, based on different input and
configurations, and want to have an idea of how well they are doing.
In the 4-unitigger folder, there is a log2 length histogram. Can I use
that to get an idea of how well my assembly is going? For example,
this is from one assembly (bogart):
checkUnitigMembership()-- 13 (     8192-    16384) 2953
checkUnitigMembership()-- 14 (    16384-    32768) 168
checkUnitigMembership()-- 15 (    32768-    65536) 4
checkUnitigMembership()-- 16 (    65536-   131072) 1

and this is from another (bog):
checkUnitigMembership()-- 13 (     8192-    16384) 2302
checkUnitigMembership()-- 14 (    16384-    32768) 74
checkUnitigMembership()-- 15 (    32768-    65536) 1

and a third (bog):
checkUnitigMembership()-- 13 (     8192-    16384) 2718
checkUnitigMembership()-- 14 (    16384-    32768) 48


Since there are more and longer unitigs in the first assembly, will
that probably turn out to have longer contigs in the end, or is there
no correlation between this? Is there other places where I can get a
feel of my assembly? Parsing the scaffold log files in any particular
way?

Thank you.

Ole