read coverage 30 Assembly QC Coverage from within "Finishing strategy" in GROUP: MIxS Coverage (read depth or depth) is the average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence. URI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_sequencing Damion Dooley's note: Wikipedia defines calculation with: "the length of the original genome (G), the number of reads(N), and the average read length(L) as N * L/G" assembly quality control datum requires discussion