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Table 1.

Methods used as described by participants, and mean length of nucleotide sequence returned by participants testing TAQAS panels.

Participant ID	Sequencing method or commercial assay	Editing Software	ARV resistance interpretation system	Edited nucleotide sequence length (mean)
1^a	BigDye Terminator, ABI	Sequencher 4.8, Gene Codes Corporation	Stanford	1016
2	BigDye Terminator, ABI	Sequence Navigator, ABI	Stanford	949
3	TruGene, Bayer HealthCare	TruGene version 11	TruGene version 12	909
4	BigDye Terminator version 1.1, ABI	Staden Package version 1.6.0	Stanford	1012
5	BigDye Terminator, ABI	BioEdit version 7.052	Stanford	1004
6	BigDye Terminator version 3.1, ABI	GENETYX version 8	IAS-USA and Standford	879
7	BigDye Terminator version 3.1, ABI	SeqScape version 2.5, ABI	Stanford	956
8	3730 XL system, ABI	CEQ TM 8000 Genetic Analysis system	Stanford	1014
9	ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping kit, Abbott Molecular	Sequencher 4.5, Gene Codes Corporation	Stanford	1017
10	BigDye Terminator version 3.1, ABI	SeqScape version 2.5, ABI	French ANRS	1012
11	ViroSeq HIV-1 Genotyping kit version 2.0, Abbott Molecular	ViroSeq software version 2.6	Stanford	962
12	PRISM^® 3100-Avant Genetic Analyzer, ABI	BioEdit Version 7.0.9, Chromas Lite version 2.01	Stanford	1017

Manufacturer details: Abbott Molecular Diagnostics, Abbott Park, IL, USA; Applied Biosystems (ABI), Foster City, CA, USA; Bayer HealthCare, Tarrytown, NY, USA; Beckman Coulter Inc., Fullerton, CA, USA; BioEdit, www.mbio.ncsu.edu/BioEdit/bioedit.html; bioMérieux, France; Celera Diagnostics, Rockville, MD, USA; Chromas Lite, Technelysium, Queensland, Australia, www.technelysium.com.au; Gene Codes Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; GENETYX CORPORATION, Japan; Hastings Software Inc., NY, USA; Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA; QIAGEN Science MD, USA; TAKARA BIO Inc., Shiga, Japan.

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