Commercial Platform Most Frequent Error Type Error Frequency
Capillary sequencing single nucleotide substitutions 10-1
454 GS Junior Deletions 10-2
PacBio RS CG deletions 10-2
Ion Torrent PGM Short deletions 10-2
Solid A-T bias 2 x10-2
IlluminaMiSeq single nucleotide substitutions 10-3
Illumina HiSeq2000 single nucleotide substitutions 10-3
Tag-based methods:    
SafeSeq single nucleotide substitutions 1.4 x 10-5
CircleSeq single nucleotide substitutions 7.6 x 10-6
Duplex Sequencing Single nucleotide substitutions 5 X 10-8
Table 1: Comparison of the primary error frequencies of DNA sequencing platforms and tag-based error correction methodologies