Jun 30 2011
System requirements for all workbenches from CLC bio
Jun 07 2011
Wouldn’t it be cool if someone put in the effort to write a huge knowledge bank on all kinds of aspects that relates to Next Generation Sequencing? Well, it turns out that someone already did - and it’s free!
This goldmine of sequencing insights has been created by the team of experts at BlueSEQ – maybe you have heard of them and their sequencing exchange already? Anyway, their knowledge bank gives you a detailed comparison of the different sequencing platforms, including the pros and cons of each of them – check it out here
Furthermore you can get unbiased recommendations of which platforms are ideal for which types of applications, like they suggest using 454 for de novo projects of prokaryote genomes, or either Illumina or LifeTech’s SOLiD for transcriptome sequencing - and the list goes on and on.
A lot of this information can of course be found around the internet on vendor websites and forums like SeqAnswers. But the nice thing about this knowledge bank is that you don’t have to trawl through endless pages to find the exact bit of information you need. It’s all there and curated by sequencong pros who don’t have a bias towards any of the platforms.
This impressive resource, including their glossary, can be extremely helpful to scientists who’re new to sequencing or researchers who don’t spend their whole working life doing sequencing, but maybe rather run a couple of projects a year, and then spend the majority of their time analyzing the sequencing data.
So what’s missing? As both platforms mature, I look forward to reading more about how BlueSEQ’s experts see Ion Torrent and PacBio fits in to the comparison table of all the major sequencing platforms and what applications are ideal to run on which platforms - perhaps also taking economics into question!?
