Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies

Next-generation sequencing platforms.

Automated DNA sequencing instruments embody an elegant interplay among chemistry, engineering, software, and molecular biology and have built upon Sanger's founding discovery of dideoxynucleotide sequencing to perform once-unfathomable tasks. Combined with innovative physical mapping approaches that helped to establish long-range relationships between cloned stretches of genomic DNA, fluorescen...

Base-calling for next-generation sequencing platforms

Next-generation sequencing platforms are dramatically reducing the cost of DNA sequencing. With these technologies, bases are inferred from light intensity signals, a process commonly referred to as base-calling. Thus, understanding and improving the quality of sequence data generated using these approaches are of high interest. Recently, a number of papers have characterized the biases associa...

Accuracy of Next Generation Sequencing Platforms.

Next-generation DNA sequencing has revolutionized genomic studies and is driving the implementation of precision diagnostics. The ability of these technologies to disentangle sequence heterogeneity, however, is limited by their relatively high error rates. A Several single molecule barcoding strategies have been propose to reduce the overall error frequency. A Duplex Sequencing additionally exp...

Practice guidelines for Targeted Next Generation Sequencing

DNA sequencing is the most commonly used approach for mutation scanning and is widely regarded as the gold standard. Agreed practice guidelines for both the sequencing process and data analysis are important to achieve a high quality approach, with common quality standards across different laboratories. These guidelines do not constitute an experimental protocol or troubleshooting guide, rather...

Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing for Forensic Genomics