Equipment

Platform

No. of reads
(flow cell)

Output bases
(flow cell)

Run time

Read length

Cost per Run

Cost per MB

Errors

Illumina Hiseq 2500 Regular Mode

1.5 billion SE or PE

300 Gb

2/11 days

2x100bp

$12,674

$0.04

Substitution

Illumina Hiseq2500
Rapid Mode

300 million SE or PE

90 Gb

7/40 hr

2x150bp

$3,356

$0.04

Substitution

Life Tech Ion
Proton

60-80 million SE

~10Gb

~4 hours

100-200bp

$1,200

$0.15

Indels at homopolymers

Illumina's HiSeq 2500 Sequencer
PacBio RSII Platform
Fluidigm C1 Single-Cell Auto Prep System
Illumina's cBot
Life Technologies' Ion Proton^TM Sequencer
Life Technologies' Ion One Touch2
Life Technologies' 3730 DNA Analyzer
Affymetrix GeneChip System
Illumina's Hiscan System
Agilent Microarray System
Agilent Bioanlyzer
Qubit Flurometer
Nanodrop