wiki/Hybrid_genome_assembly" title="Hybrid genome assembly"><i>hybrid assembly</i></a>.</p>
<p>From 2006, the <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumina_(company)" title="Illumina (company)">Illumina</a> (previously Solexa) technology has been available and can generate about 100 million reads per run on a single sequencing machine. Compare this to the 35 million reads of the human genome project which needed several years to be produced on hundreds of sequencing machines. Illumina was initially limited to a