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Riding the Elephant

Posted on 7 Feb, 2011 by Nicholas Crawford

I recently received my first batch of reads from a single paired-end lane run on an [Illumina Hi-Seq](http://www.illumina.com/systems/hiseq_2000.ilmn) instrument. This batch totaled about 20 billion basepairs of DNA sequence, and the associated data files a combined 55.4 gigs of text. … Continue reading →

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