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Re:No human genome has ever been completely sequenced by searine on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:32PM (#15535672)
The problem is Oxford Nanopore data has about a 30% insertion and deletion error rate. While PacBio is less than 1% indel and substitution error.

Don't get me wrong, the Minion is amazing, but it can't compare to PacBio in terms of quality... yet.

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Re:No human genome has ever been completely sequenced by bsmrea on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:24PM (#15536171)
The error rate of recent nanopore data is much less than 30%. See here for a recent benchmark: https://github.com/rrwick/Basecalling-comparison
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Re:No human genome has ever been completely sequenced by searine on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:50PM (#15536379)
Interesting, I haven't tried it on the newest chemistry but last time I did a flowcell (earlier this year) that was the INDEL error rate we achieve.

Substitution error rate was very low, but you should evaluate INDELs specifically, rather than just identity like you did on your git, because it is the major drawback of this technology.

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Re:No human genome has ever been completely sequenced by bsmrea on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:55PM (#15536412)
Just to be clear this isn't my analysis - and yes most of the errors here are due to indels.
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