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Table 2 Results of the reviewed studies

From: Genome sequencing: a systematic review of health economic evidence

 

Author (publication year)

Throughput Mb/day

Bases/read

Raw accuracy

Cost per instrument

Cost per Mb approximately

Sanger

Kircher et al. (2010)

6

800

0.99991

-

$500.00

Roche/454 GS FLX Titanium

Shendure et al. (2008)

-

250

-

$500 000

$60.00

Tucker et al. (2009)

1 200

400

0.99

-

$84.40

Kircher et al. (2010)

750

400

0.9991

-

$20.00

Glenn (2011)

-

400

0.99

-

$12.40

Pareek et al. (2011)

1 000

400

0.995

$500 000

$84.39

Illumina Genome Analyzer II/IIx

Tucker et al. (2009)

2 500

75+

0.985

-

$6.00

Kircher et al. (2010)

5 000

100

0.991

-

$0.50

Illumina Solexa

Shendure et al. (2008)

-

36

-

$430 000

$2.00

Pareek et al. (2011)

1 500

36

0.985

$400 000

$5.97

Illumina HiSeq 2000

Glenn (2011)

-

100 + 100

0.99

-

$0.10

Applied Biosystems SOLiD 4

Shendure et al. (2008)

-

35

-

$591 000

$2.00

Pareek et al. (2011)

1 850

35

0.9994

$525 000

$5.81

Tucker et al. (2009)

2 500

50

0.994

-

$5.80

Kircher et al. (2010)

5 000

50

0.991

-

$0.50

Life Technologies SOLiD 5500

Glenn (2011)

-

75 + 35

0.99

-

<$0.08

Life Technologies SOLiD 5500xl

Glenn (2011)

-

75 + 35

0.99

-

<$0.07

Helicos HeliScope

Shendure et al. (2008)

-

30

-

$1 350 000

$1.00

Tucker et al. (2009)

3 100

30-35

0.99

-

-

Kircher et al. (2010)

5 000

32

0.99

-

$0.50

Glenn (2011)

-

35

-

-

-

Pareek et al. (2011)

2 500

>1000

>0.99

-

-

Polonator

Shendure et al. (2008)

-

13

-

$155 000

$1.00