Device | Method | Generation | Major uses | Run time | Length of reads | Reference |
Illumina Hi Seq 4000 | Flow cell-based, reversible dye termination and four-color optical imaging | 2nd | WES WGS SNP WTA | <1-3.5 days | 2×150 bp | 136,146–151 |
Roche 454 pyro-sequencing GS FLX+ | Emulsion PCR with bead-based pyro-sequencing and CCD light imaging | 2nd | WGS WTA Targeted Seq SNP | 10 h | Up to 1000 bp | 136,146,151–153 |
Life Technologies SOLiD 5500xl | Sequential dinucleotide ligation; flow cell-based four-color optical imaging | 2nd | WES WGS SNP | 6 days | 2×60 bp | 136,146,150,151,154 |
Life Tech-nologies Ion Torrent PGM | Semi-conductor based nonoptical detection; standard dNTP sequencing chemistry | 2nd | Targeted panel Demand Sequenc-ing | <1 day | 400 bp | 136,151,155 |
Complete Genomics CGA platform | DNA nanoball arrays coupled with combinatori-al probe anchor ligation | 2nd | WGS | Slow: weeks to months | ~70 bases | 136,151,156 |
Pacific Biosciences PacBioRSII | Zero-mode waveguide, individual polymerase; single molecule sequencing using fluorescent dNTPs | 3rd | Long read, full microbial genome | <1-6 h | 10-15 kb | 136,151,157,158 |
Seqll Heliscope | True Single Molecule Sequencing, massive parallel sequencing without amplification | 3rd | Targeted WGS WES WTA | ~8 h | 25-60 bp | 136,151,156,159 |
Nanopore Minion | Nanopore exonuclease sequencing, no need for amplification | 3rd | Long read, full microbial | 1 min-48 h | 230-300kb | 160 |
Illumina Hi Seq 4000 | Flow cell-based, reversible dye termination and four-color optical imaging | 2nd | WES WGS SNP WTA | <1-3.5 days | 2×150 bp | 136,146–151 |
Roche 454 pyro-sequencing GS FLX+ | Emulsion PCR with bead-based pyro-sequencing and CCD light imaging | 2nd | WGS WTA Targeted Seq SNP | 10 h | Up to 1000 bp | 136,146,151–153 |
Life Technologies SOLiD 5500xl | Sequential dinucleotide ligation; flow cell-based four-color optical imaging | 2nd | WES WGS SNP | 6 days | 2×60 bp | 136,146,150,151,154 |
Life Tech-nologies Ion Torrent PGM | Semi-conductor based nonoptical detection; standard dNTP sequencing chemistry | 2nd | Targeted panel Demand Sequenc-ing | <1 day | 400 bp | 136,151,155 |
Complete Genomics CGA platform | DNA nanoball arrays coupled with combinatorial probe anchor ligation | 2nd | WGS | Slow: weeks to months | ~70 bases | 136,151,156 |
Pacific Biosciences PacBioRSII | Zero-mode waveguide, individual polymerase; single molecule sequencing using fluorescent dNTPs | 3rd | Long read, full microbial genome | <1-6 h | 10-15 kb | 136,151,157,158 |
Seqll Heliscope | True Single Molecule Sequencing, massive parallel sequencing without amplification | 3rd | Targeted WGS WES WTA | ~8 h | 25-60 bp | 136,151,156,159 |
Nanopore Minion | Nanopore exonuclease sequencing, no need for amplification | 3rd | Long read, full microbial | 1 min-48 h | 230-300kb | 160 |
CCD: charge-coupled device; NA: not applicable; NGS: next-generation sequencing; WES: whole exome sequencing; WGS: whole genome sequencing; SNP: single nucleotide polymorphism; WTA: whole transcriptome analysis.