Sanger | Illumina MiSeq | Illumina NextSeq | Illumina HiSeq | Illumina NovaSeq | Pacific Biosciences | Oxford Nanopore | |
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Throughput range per run (Gb) | c. 0.0005 | 10–15 | 10–120 | 1000–1800 | 2000–6000 | 0.5-10 | 0.1-1 |
Read length | Up to 1 kb | 300 | 150 | 150 | 250 | up to 60 kb | up to 100 kb |
Read type | SR | SR, PE | SR, PE | SR, PE | SR, PE | SR | SR |
Error rate (%) | 0.001–1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2-0.8 | 13 | 5-40 |
Error type | Substitutions | Substitutions | Substitutions | Substitutions | Substitutions | Indels | Indels, deletions |
Advantages | Read accuracy and length | Read length | Throughput | Throughput, low error rate | High throughput | Speed, read length | Read length, portability |