>you can compensate for the error rate by just sequence everything multiple times. Usually, but sometimes the errors are correlated. Overall I agree, short re

>you can compensate for the error rate by just sequence everything multiple times. Usually, but sometimes the errors are correlated. Overall I agree, short read sequencing is a lot more cost effective. Doing an Illumina whole genome sequence for cell line quality control (at my startup) costs $260 in total.