9/3/14
Customer asks an estimate of experimental cost for an Illumina-based short-gun metagenomics project that includes 4 samples.
Wed, 09/03/2014 at 4:18 PM
AccuraScience LB: Our services are focused on processing, analyzing and interpreting data, and we do not do sequencing experiments directly in our facility. We do, however, have reliable partner companies that do quality sequencing experiments. The cost estimate below is meant as reference only. For a metagenomic project, one Hiseq lane (100-200nt, pair-ended, ~100 million reads) would provide enough coverage for several samples - 4 or even higher, with ordinary complexity of species composition (gut or soil). This is often quoted at ~$3000-4000, plus mulplexing cost (another $1000-2000, depending on the number of samples) - by a sequencing company.
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