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seqWell Kits Comparison Guide 

Tagmentation-based NGS DNA Library Preparation

Product ExpressPlex™ 2.0 purePlex™ plexWell™ LongPlex™
Primary Applications Plasmid and amplicon sequencing
  • Low frequency variants in plasmids and amplicons
  • Microbial/small genome WGS
  • Low coverage human/large genome WGS
  • Metagenomic sequencing

Long read sequencing

  • Microbial/small genome WGS
  • Targeted hybrid capture
  • Metagenomic sequencing
  • Low pass, large genome
Transposase Enzyme TnX Hyperactive Tn5 Hyperactive Tn5 Hyperactive Tn5
Sample Types Amplicons (>350 bp), Plasmids Amplicons (>500 bp), Plasmids, Genomic DNA Amplicons (>500 bp), Plasmids, Genomic DNA Genomic DNA
Total Prep Time
(hands-on time)
100 min (30 min) 155 min (45 min) 190 min (55 min) 105-225 min* (40 min)
Input Mass 1 - 40 ng 5 - 50 ng (based on batch size) 3 - 30 ng, 5 - 25 ng*
10 ng average
150 - 500 ng*
Indexing Method CDI UDI CDI UDI
Batch Range 48-96 8-24 96 1-24*
Total Samples 384 96 96 / 384 96
Number of Available Unique Index Combinations 1536 384 96 / 2304 96
Paired-End Reads (Clusters) per Sample Supported ≤4 million ≤20 million ≤4 million, ≤20 million* NA
Sequencing Platform Illumina Illumina Illumina PacBio

*Depending on the protocol