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. 2018 Aug 23;46(17):8953–8965. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky726

Table 2.

Basic statistics of data from three applied sequencing technologies

Technology Number of units sequenced Number of reads N50 read length Total amount of data in base pairs
Illumina, MiSeq Part of one flow cell (300 bp paired-end) 4 471 800 (read pairs) 242 bp 753 Mb
PacBio, RS IIa Four SMRT cells (P6-C4 chemistry) 239 198 16.9 kb 2.7 Gb
ONT, MinIONb Two flow cells (R9.5 cells, 1D2 library) 34 167 44.9 kb 1.6 Gb

aStatistics based on extracted subreads. After length (>500 bp) and quality (0.83) filtering.

bStatistics after filtering for reads longer than 30 kb.