Table 1.

Reads generated by MinION (top) and comparison with PacBio RSII and MiSeq (bottom) for DNA extracted from an MRSA isolate

	MinION read type
	all reads	all 2D	all 1D
Total	74 748	14 436	60 312
Mean length	1857	2965	1592
Median length	2910	3233	2762
	Sequencing platform
	RSII	MiSeq	MinION (all mapped reads)
Depth	130×	72×	12×
Standard deviation	40×	35×	4.9×
Percentage covered	100	100	99.97
Insertions	0.008	2 × 10−6	0.107
Deletions	0.007	1 × 10−5	0.115
Errors	0.008	0.002	0.03