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by vikramkr 2164 days ago
Yes the higher error ones are used for alignment- and even then too high an error rate in a very repetitive region (especially depending on the error type - misreads vs skipped bases etc) make it too challenging to build a scaffold to align your illumina reads.

As of 2018 error rate for alignments with nanopore was around 3-6 percent

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053456/