On linux OS you can extract human chromosome length with following command
curl -s ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/chromInfo.txt.gz | gunzip -c
from a Broad Institute site:
"N50 is a statistical measure of average length of a set of sequences. It is used widely in genomics, especially in reference to contig or supercontig lengths within a draft assembly.
Given a set of sequences of...
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GA4GH Data Working Group
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