ABySS contig coverage?

[jgibbons1]

I've beebn playing around with ABySS and haven't been able to find much documentation on calculating contig coverage. The header to each contig reads as follows:

>13 1504 10278

Which I am assuming is:

>ID contig_length ???

I realize the 10278 isn't coverage, but what is it? And more importantly is there a way to calculate coverage?

Thanks,

John

[natstreet]

It's probably worth posting this message to the ABySS google group as well http://groups.google.com/group/abyss-users

You should also see this old post http://www.bcgsc.ca/pipermail/abyss-...ch/000019.html

and here is another description of the contig headers http://seqanswers.com/wiki/ABySS

[jgibbons1]

Very helpful...thanks natstreet!