Comparison of commercially available technologies for human whole exome capture (numbers taken from their respective data sheets)
| Probe size | Agilent | NimbleGen | Illumina |
| 120 bases | 55–105 bases | 95 bases | |
| Target region size | 50 Mb | 44.1 Mb | 62 Mb |
| Probe type | RNA | DNA | DNA |
| No of probes | 561 824 | 2.1M | 340 427 |
| No of targeted exons | 188 260 | ∼300 000 | 201 121 |
| Reads on target (%) | >65 | >65 | >65 |
| On targets ±200 bases (%) | 77 | 83 | 80 |
| Bases with >0.2× mean read coverage (%) | >80 | >80 | >80 |