Table 1.

Results of whole-genome sequencing of S. pyogenes NCTC 8198^T and CCUG 4207^T, from the four sequencing runs done with PacBio RSII, Illumina HiSeq 2,500 and Oxford Nanopore MinION platforms.

Platform	PacBio RSII		Illumina HiSeq 2500	Oxford Nanopore MinION
Run SRA accession number	ERR550482	ERR550487	SRR8631872	SRR10092043
Total number of reads	163,469	163,274	10,260,942	135,020
Total yield (Mb)	420	694	1,293	1,122
Sequencing depth	219 X	362 X	675 X	586 X
Average read length (bp)	2,570	4,250	126	8,307
Read length N50 (bp)	4,555	9,809	126	14,598
Longest read (bp)	35,267	41,160	126	97,527
Average Phred quality score	2.7	3.8	35	11.5

The total number of reads, total yield (Mb), sequencing depth, average read length (bp), read length N50 (bp), longest read (bp) and average Phred quality score are shown for each sequencing run. The SRA accession number of each run is indicated.