This is a kind of silly question but hope somebody can help me out here. When people do NGS, do they need to spike in controls? Can someone maybe direct me to a few papers on this?
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot!
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I haven't heard of anyone spiking in controls, though perhaps in a few less common pipelines it is used. As far as I know it's not used for RNA-Seq, SNP calling, genome assembly or ChIP-Seq. The controls most people use are simply a control condition, e.g. untreated cells for RNA-Seq, wild type for SNP calling, different IgG pull-downs for ChIP-Seq (there was some discussion about these earlier). I'm not sure what you could use as a control for genome assembly, but it may or may not require one.
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