Assembly

common shrew

This is the first release of the low-coverage 1.9X assembly of the common shrew or European shrew (Sorex araneus). The genome sequencing and assembly is provided by the Broad Institute.

The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 length for supercontigs is 18.74 kb and is 3.17 kb for contigs. The total number of bases in supercontigs is 2.93 Gb and in contigs is 1.83 Gb.