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Sequencing depth and coverage: key considerations in genomic analyses

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The issue of sequencing depth in the design of next-generation sequencing experiments is discussed and current guidelines and precedents on the issue of coverage are reviewed for four major study designs, including de novo genome sequencing, genome resequencing, transcriptome sequencing and genomic location analyses.
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Sequencing technologies have placed a wide range of genomic analyses within the capabilities of many laboratories. However, sequencing costs often set limits to the amount of sequences that can be generated and, consequently, the biological outcomes that can be achieved from an experimental design. In this Review, we discuss the issue of sequencing depth in the design of next-generation sequencing experiments. We review current guidelines and precedents on the issue of coverage, as well as their underlying considerations, for four major study designs, which include de novo genome sequencing, genome resequencing, transcriptome sequencing and genomic location analyses (for example, chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) and chromosome conformation capture (3C)).

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A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis

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Estimating the population abundance of tissue-infiltrating immune and stromal cell populations using gene expression

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Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life

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Qualimap 2: advanced multi-sample quality control for high-throughput sequencing data

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UMI-tools: modeling sequencing errors in Unique Molecular Identifiers to improve quantification accuracy

TL;DR: It is shown that errors in the UMI sequence are common and network-based methods to account for these errors when identifying PCR duplicates are introduced, demonstrating the value of properly accounting for errors in UMIs.
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High-throughput microbial population genomics using the Cortex variation assembler

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