Hi, 2009/12/22 Droit Arnaud <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > The institute where I currently work is in the process of buying a new HT > sequencer. We are debating whether we should get an Illumina or a Solid > sequencer. I was wondering if anyone of you could give me some advice in > terms of analysis. As a bioinformatician using R, I am particularly > interested in comparisons in terms of analysis, data manipulation/storage in > R, etc. We have some experience analyzing Illumina data but no experience > with Solid data.
For whatever its worth, we had someone from The Broad recently give a talk about some work he's been doing with RNA-seq. Near the beginning of the talk he had a slide with the number of machines they had from each platform, it broke down to something roughly like so (if I remember correctly): Illumina: ~ 90 SOLiD: < 10 454 : < 10 And he mentioned that the solid and 454 machines are just basically collecting dust. I don't really have enough experience with either platform to draw and judgements myself, but the guy giving the talk seemed pretty convinced and thought it was relevant to share. -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact _______________________________________________ Bioc-sig-sequencing mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-sig-sequencing
