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Time required to sequence one base

My question is general about the time to sequence one base in Illuminia SBS technology, but let me give an example: In the specification sheet of Illuminia HiSeq 4000 , the run time is 3.5 days at maximum, generating 2 X 150bp reads. Does it mean that to sequence one base (one cycle), it takes about 17 minutes?

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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

That is probably correct. Remember that you are looking at 3 billion+ spots and calling out the bases in real time on the workstation attached to the sequencer.

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