Fig. 5

Comparison of Beta vulgaris genome size estimations. The genome size of B. vulgaris was predicted by MGSE, GenomeScope2, gce, and findGSE. Different MGSE approaches were evaluated differing by the set of regions for the average coverage calculation (e.g. all genes) and the methods for the calculation of this value (mean/median). Multiple read data sets (n) were analyzed by each tool and approach to infer an average genome size given as median (m, yellow line) and mean (black triangles). The blue region shows the expected genome size range with the largest reported assembly for Beta vulgaris [86] as the lower boundary and the largest previously estimated genome size of Beta vulgaris [6] as the upper boundary (Additional File 8)