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Illumina
SoLID/ABI-Life
Roche 454
Ion Torrent
1.Removal of low quality bases/ Low complexity regions
2.Removal of adaptor sequences
3.Homopolymer-associated base call errors (3 or more identical DNA bases) causes higher number of (artificial) frameshifts
All Platforms have Errors