Maxim Dukov

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After extracting RNA with AllPrep RNA/DNA/miRNA Universal kit, can DNase digestion in solution with heat inactivation damage miRNA/lower yield?

I am using QIAGEN's AllPrep DNA/RNA/miRNA Universal Kit. The handbook doesn’t mention the possibility of additional DNase digestion post-elution, i.e. directly in the RNA solution. Can this...

17 September 2020 7,207 3 View

Is there a formula to calculate minimum required coverage for NGS given a certain variant allele frequency and sequencing error?

I'm looking for a formula that calculates minimum coverage needed to call a variant allele with a certain condifence level, given expected variant allele frequency (VAF) (or percentage of mutants...

06 April 2018 9,466 1 View

Any recommendations as to how many bytes/reads/bp per sample are needed for shotgun/16S metagenome sequencing with genus-deep taxonomic profiling ?

I’m trying to figure out how many samples per run I can sequence on various platforms for shot-gun metagenome sequencing. I’ve read that 100-150 Gbytes per sample are recommended for WGS of human...

21 March 2018 7,752 4 View