FAQ
- I would like to run a sample on the GA. What should I do?
- How can I retrieve my data?
- What data do I get?
- Should I use a paired end library or a single read library for resequencing?
Please contact us, and we can talk to you about your experiment. Depending on sample type (DNA, RNA, Chip-Seq), you will need to purchase a library preparation kit from Illumina. Once you have created your library, you'll need to send us the quantitated sample with a gel picture of the last step of library preparation. We will then sequence your sample once we have enough to fill a flowcell.
Our current preferreed method is via user-supplied USB hard drive. If you only want a subset of the total amount of data, you may download it from our servers.
This is entirely up to you. We will provide you with images, intensities, intermediate output files, raw sequence with quality scores, or just the text file with all sequence in your lane. Keep in mind you'll need a very large hard drive to store all data associated with a run.
We recommend that users prepare their samples using the paired end library prep kit. It provides the most flexibility when sequencing. You can perform a single read or paired end run on a paired end library, but you can only do a single read run with a single read library.