Table 2.

Technical specifications of sequencing products.

Company	Platform	Run Time	Maximum Output	Maximum Read Length	Reads per run
Illumina Inc.	MiSeq	4 – 55 hrs	15 Gb	2 × 300bp	25 M/ per lane
	NextSeq	12–30 hrs	120 Gb	2 × 150bp	400 M / per lane
	HiSeq 3000	< 1 – 3.5 days	750 Gb	2 × 150bp	2.5 B /per lane
	HiSeq 4000	< 1 – 3.5 days	1,5 Tb	2 × 150bp	5 B / per lane
	HiSeq × Series	< 3 days	1,8 Tb	2 × 150bp	6 B /per flow cell
	NovaSeq 6000	~13 – 38 hrs	N/A	2 × 250bp	10 B/per lane
Pacific Biosciences Inc	PacBio RS II	0.5 – 4 hrs	1Gb	~10 – 15 kb	50 – 80 k
Life Technologies Corp.	Ion GeneStudio S5	4.5 –19 hrs	15 Gb	200 – 600 bp	2 – 130M
	Ion GeneStudio S5 Plus	3 – 20 hrs	30 Gb	200 – 600 bp	2 – 130M
	Ion GeneStudio S5 Prime	3–10 hrs	50 Gb	200 – 600 bp	2 – 130M
Sequencing by Oligo Ligation Detection	SOLiD 5500 W	10 days	120 Gb	2 × 50bp	1.2 B
	SOLiD 5500×1 W	10 days	240 Gb	2 × 50bp	2.4 B
Roche Inc.	454 GS FLX+	10–23 hrs	450 – 700 Mb	Up to 1 kb	1M
	454 GS Jr	10 hrs	35 Mb	400 bp	100 k
Oxford Nanopore	Flongle	1 min – 16 hrs	2 Gb	>2Mb	126 channels
	MinlON	1 min – 48 hrs	50 Gb		512 channels
	GridlON Mk1	1 min – 48 hrs	250 Gb		512×5 channels
	PromethlON 24	1 min – 72 hrs	5.2 Tb		24×3000 channels
	PromethlON 48	1 min – 72 hrs	10.5 Tb		48×3000 channels

Abbreviations Mb, Gb and Tb correspond to Megabytes, Gigabytes and Terabytes, respectively (for comparison, the human genome has 3×10⁹ bp or 3 Gb). Abbreviations hrs corresponds to hours, bp to base pair, kb to kilobase, M and B to millions and billions.