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Getting the most out of MachinesChapters:00:00 PhiX14:30 low complexity19:30 UMIs32:10 FastQC43:00 MultiQC56:40 PycoQCPhiX concentrations for loading a validation run:https://knowledge.illumina.com/instrumentation/general/instrumentation-general-reference_material-list/000001536Dnatech on why UMIs are used:https://dnatech.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/faqs/what-are-umis-and-why-are-they-used-in-high-throughput-sequencing/BMH learning on UMIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPMsnhIBK0FastQC for QC of .fastq(.gz) files:https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/A FastQC report from a „good“ sample:https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/good_sequence_short_fastqc.htmlmultiqc for summarizing QC reports: https://multiqc.info/UMI-tools for working with UMI data: https://umi-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pycoQC for Nanopore QC: https://github.com/a-slide/pycoQCSince 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/)operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supportsresearch in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise andsequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/)- network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor atHeinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).License NoticeThis podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.Attribution:Podcast Title: Explain PodcastCreators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel RickertWebsite: https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/
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