Motivation: Oxford Nanopore's MinION device has matured rapidly and is now capable of producing over one million reads and several gigabases of sequence data per run. (nanoporetech.com)
Illumina sequencing of the exome capture generated about 6.4 gigabases per individual. (massgenomics.org)
One of the newly published maps is the 1.8 gigabase sequence of the E. guineensis African oil palm. (sciencedaily.com)