When you use the Consolidation method of condensation for Illumina data, SOLiD System data, or Ion Torrent data, overlapping sequences are merged and the consensus sequence is used in place of all the original reads that are in the subgroup. Information about the original reads, however, is maintained so that the original coverage information is not lost. The Consolidation method is recommended for datasets that have a high depth of coverage in the raw reads. The figure below is an example of the output from the Condensation Tool when Consolidation is selected for the condensation method.

The figure below is an example of the output consensus sequences and their read names, which reflect the anchor sequence, shoulder sequences, and counts of forward and reverse reads used.