Is Ion Torrent technology acceptable for meta-genomics to profile microbiome?

Question

[ebrahimiet]

Dear all,

Is Ion Torrent technology acceptable for meta-genomics to profile microbiome? or we have to use only Illumina platforme? for meta-genome, short reads are better or paired reads? Which lenght of short reads and which depth you suggest? Is it different between whole sequencing or 16S?

Thanks

[GenoMax]

Not directly related but still a comparison: http://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-15-96