Five ways to get the most from your NGS project and stay on budget

This is repeat of the lecture given June 11th on the Bethesda Campus.

• Common sample prep and library preparation pitfalls
• Understand what determines the quality of your NGS data
• Current publishing and data reporting standards for NGS studies
• Types of experimental designs used NGS studies
• Ensure efficient use of experimental budget
• Sample budgets for standard RNA-Seq, CHiP-Seq, Exome-Seq projects
• Increase precision and accuracy of results
• Microarrays vs RNA-Seq: pluses and minuses
• Increase the likelihood for publication in a top-tier journal