Table 1. Comparison of different sequencing and mapping technologies.
Category | Scaffolding Data | Separation on the Genome | Orientation | Ordering | Distance |
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Physical mapping | Restriction maps | 10–100 Kb | Yes | No | Yes |
Optical maps | 10–100 Kb | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Subcloning | 10x Genomics | 100 Kb | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Illumina TSLR | 100 Kbp | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Long-read data | Pacific Biosciences | 10–15 Kb | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Oxford Nanopore | 15–20 Kb | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Paired read | Paired-end reads | 100–500 bp | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mate pairs | 1,000–10,000 bp | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Chromosome conformation | Hi-C | 30–100 Mb | Yes | Yes | No |
Chicago | 3–100 Mb | Yes | Yes | No | |
Synteny | Reference genome(s) | Up to genome size | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Abbreviation: TSLR, TruSeq Synthetic Long Read.