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Re:A Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles by arca_vorago on Monday October 16, 2017 @11:14AM (#15483741)
Its been a few years since I was in genetics, what device currently gives the longest single reads? If I remember right we were getting the best from the Roche 454 and the Illumina HiSeq, but the iontorrent was better at other things.
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Re:A Quarter of Cow DNA Came from Reptiles by dnautics on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:38PM (#15485090)
Probably the nanopore readers, but sometimes the reads get up to 30% wrong, which means you need to get multiple reads anyways to get consensus.

Iontorrent has very short reads (250bp) but I think they have 1kb working at least in the lab.

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