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Anyone have a sample data set that they'd be willing to share? I'll host! 
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A sample of what type of data?The more you know, the more you know you don't know. —Aristotle -
Ideally for my application, short read genomic data (ie, solexa/abi). I'm playing around with some of the software packages listed in this forum and need some data!
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Sorry, I should have been clearer in my message: what experiment type? ChIP-Seq, Genome shotgun, Transcriptome shotgun, etc. Getting generic data is easy - getting results for a particular type of data may not be.The more you know, the more you know you don't know. —AristotleComment
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Genome shotgun, or better yet amplicon enriched genomic reads. ie. not transcriptome data nor ChIP.
Actually now that I think about it it would be nice to have sample data sets for all applications, but I only have 6TB of bandwith per month!Comment
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Hrm.. I'm not sure we have many (good quality) genome shotgun data sets kicking around that I'd be able to get permission to release. At least, I personally don't have any, yet. I'll poke around, though, and maybe I can find something for you. If you don't mind poor quality, just for playing around, that might be feasible.The more you know, the more you know you don't know. —AristotleComment
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That would be great. I'm not concerned with base quality or recalling, etc. I'm working on analysis platforms...and it's no fun to just randomly generate short reads.
Let me know!Comment
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Hi ECO,
I brought this up yesterday, and was told that there is no point in making any data available. Supposedly there are open repositories (NCBI?) collecting and making this data available. I spent the last 15 minutes looking for said repositories, but couldn't find anything remotely like I expected.
On the other hand, doing a Google search for ".seq.txt", which is the common file name of sequences produced using the Illumina pipeline, I came up with a set of Histone ChIP experiments that the BC Genome Science Centre has made available anyhow:
I did confirm that they were intentionally released, so I'm sure there's no problem with using them. On the other hand, I don't know a lot about these particular sets of data. I do know they're not new: they were analysed a while ago, and I've seen several presentations on this information over the last year or so.
The files themselves are post-base calling, but not yet aligned. They may be good for testing aligners or whole pipelines. (Then again, they're old, they may not be a good test for the latest Illumina software - Interested parties can try that themselves.)
I suspect the wig files (where available) were created with Findpeaks 2.1.x, though I haven't verified this.
Cheers,
AnthonyThe more you know, the more you know you don't know. —AristotleComment
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Data DVD
Applied Biosystems have a sample data DVD of S. suis reads together with a few compiled executables (for UNIX), some Perl code and a workflow document.
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Anthony & sci_guy, thanks much! I'll take a look!
I'll probably be starting a thread soon about the best OSS solutions for putting together one's own analysis platform. Not really to support an instrument, but to analyze a small number of runs for a specific project.
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