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Solexa

SOLiD

Platform:
GS 20
FLX
Ti
GA
GA II
1
2
Reads:
500 k
500 k
1 M
28 M
80 M
40 M
115 M

Fragment

Read length:
100
200
350
35
50
75
25
35
Run time:
6 hr
7 hr
9 hr
3 d
3 d
4 d
6 d
5 d
Yield:
50 Mb
100 Mb
400 Mb
1 Gb
4 Gb
6 Gb
1 Gb
4 Gb
Yield per hour:
8,3 Mb/hr
14,3 Mb/hr
44,4 Mb/hr
13,9 Mb/hr
55,6 Mb/hr
62,5 Mb/hr
6,9 Mb/hr
33,3 Mb/hr
Images:
11 GB
13 GB
27 GB
500 GB
1.1 TB
1.7 TB
1.8 TB
2.5 TB
PA Disk:
3 GB
3 GB
15 GB
175 GB
300 GB
350 GB
300 GB
750 GB
PA CPU:
10 hr
140 hr
220 hr
100 hr
70 hr
100 hr
NA
NA
SRA:
500 MB
1 GB
4 GB
30 GB
50 GB
75 GB
100 GB
140 GB

Paired-end

Read length:
200
2×35
2×50
2×75
2×25
2×35
Insert:
3.5 kb
200 b
200 b
200 b
3 kb
3 kb
Run time:
7 hr
6 d
6 d
8 d
12 d
10 d
Yield:
100 Mb
2 Gb
8 Gb
11 Gb
2 Gb
8 Gb
Yield per hour:
14,3 Mb/hr
13,9 Mb/hr
55,6 Mb/hr
57,3 Mb/hr
6,9 Mb/hr
33,3 Mb/hr
Images:
13 GB
1 TB
2.2 TB
3.4 TB
3.6 TB
5 TB
PA Disk:
3 GB
350 GB
500 GB
600 GB
600 GB
1.5 TB
PA CPU:
140 hr
160 hr
120 hr
170 hr
NA
NA
SRA:
1 GB
60 GB
100 GB
150 GB
200 GB
280 GB

This overview is a work in progress and will be updated as new and relevant technologies emerge.

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