has measurement unit label assembly genome size As noted in Quast documentation: " The total assembly size may increase (and in some cases exceeds the genome size) due to contaminants (see Chitsaz et al. (2011)), misassembled contigs, repeats, and hubs that contribute to multiple contigs. " Damion Dooley The assembly genome size is the sum of all lengths of a sequence assembly's contigs. assembly quality control datum base pair requires discussion base pair