A company like Lockheed Martin, for example, may be looking for assemblers, and so may scan for such words as "bench assembly" and "power tools," Ms. Webb said.
Wind industry jobs range in pay from about $30,000 a year for assemblers to almost $100,000 a year for engineers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
They also echoed our conclusions that focusing on individual metrics can often produce different rankings for assemblers.
Previous results, however, indicate that for assemblers outputting fewer singletons (or singleton-reassembly strategies) ortholog hit ratios computed over all unigenes may nevertheless be informative [ 4].
Metagenome assembly is more difficult, because of the presence of homologous genes from multiple species in the same community that may behave like repeats for assemblers.
Two basic graph based algorithms exist for assemblers: The first one is based on overlap-layout-consensus graphs, such as Newbler [ 22] and MIRA [ 23].
The REAPR analysis also suggests that repeats in the fish genome might pose more of an issue for assemblers than the bird and snake genomes.
For assemblers using a De Bruijn Graph method with a mandatory k-mer size parameter (ABySS and SOAPdenovo), we tested a range of k when running SOAPdenovo, and found k = 61 to be optimal (see Additional file 1).
We use a value of k=55 to run Hammer on this dataset, motivated by the fact that it was found to work best for assemblers on this data (Chitsaz, H. et al., 2011, submitted for publication).
These widely varying results suggest that differing properties of the three genomes pose different challenges for assemblers, but it may also reflect differences in the qualities of the three optical maps.
