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. 2018 Jul 11;13(7):e0200423. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200423

Table 2. Comparison of sequencing results (N = 17 parameters).

Parameter Macrogen-X10 Illumina-X10 Peterhof-HiSeq4000
Sequencing strategy Library preparation kit Illumina TruSeq DNA PCR-Free Illumina TruSeq DNA PCR-Free Illumina TruSeq DNA PCR-Free
Insert size 300–400 bp 450 bp 400 bp
Read length 151bp, paired-end 151bp, paired-end 150bp, paired-end
Raw read QC Estimated mean coverage 31.685 36 32
Variance coefficient of coverage 0.245 0.28 0.27
Fraction of read pairs with both reads retained after filtration 0.989 0.986 0.981
Fraction of kmers with errors 0.076 0.068 0.069
Fraction of read pairs without adapters or Ns 0.994 0.994 0.998
Mapping QC Reads before mapping 812,203,657 834,018,799 912,695,503
Percentage of mapped reads 97.85% 97.14% 97.43%
Variant QC Number of SNVs 3956042 3971375 3552604
% of novel SNVs 2.01% 2.05% 1.64%
Number of indels 459983 708225 335164
# Multiallelic sites 30180 122066 14031
Mendel errors 0.58% 0.30% 0.27%
Genotype concordance with microarray 96.80% 96.88% 96.67%

Main parameters used for comparison of sequencing centers are presented in this table. These and additional parameters can also be found in S1S3 Tables. All sequenced samples were used in this comparison.