Table 3. Number of SNPs and false positive variants detected, after alignments of untrimmed reads.

Sequencing technology	Alignments	True variants >20%	False positives>20%	True variants >10%*	False positives>10%*
Roche 454	Full length reads	48	4	49	15
	Trimmed reads	46	1	47	6
Illumina GA	Full length reads	49	0	52	1
	Trimmed reads	49	0	52	1
ABI SOLiD	Full length reads	48	0	51	0
	Trimmed reads	50	0	51	0

*Values inclusive of the elements detected with a >20% threshold.