On Jul 18, 2011, at 23:25 , Robin Kramer wrote: > I doubt that pacbio is going to bring much to the assembly world until that > accuracy improves. The problem is the reads will still need to be "error > corrected" by competing sequencing technologies(similar to the problem that > 454 reads have), Math is simple: if PB gets reads >= 1500 at >=95 %, 454 unpaired reads are in danger of extinction. I don't think that this is out of reach. Bacteria and lower eukaryotes would then have a mix of PB CCS, 454 PE and Solexa. Or perhaps even PB CCS, PB strobed abd Solexa ... but for that the single read accuracy of Solexa should go >= 90%. B. -- You have received this mail because you are subscribed to the mira_talk mailing list. For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html