Figure 4

Error rates as a function of GC composition. Each graph shows mismatch (light blue), deletion (dark blue), and insertion (maroon) rates (y-axis) as a function of GC composition (x-axis). Data are shown for the Ion Torrent PGM from three organisms (P. falciparum, R. sphaeroides, and human), for the Illumina MiSeq on the two microbes, for the Illumina HiSeq on human, for Pacific Biosciences from the two microbes and from Complete Genomics for human (Table 2, data sets 1 to 3, 7 to 9, and 14 to 16). For human we note that bona fide differences between the sample and the reference sequence were recorded as errors. Error rates are only plotted for GC percentages for which there are at least 1,000 100-base windows in the genome.