public data sets

[muchomaas]

So I want to find a public data set of aligned DNA sequencing reads, so that I can compare a workflow I am using on my samples to a control data set. Does anyone know the best way to search for such a thing?

Sorry I am rather new to all this. Any pointers would be appreciated.

[maubp]

I'd grab transcriptome reads for a public genome from the NCBI SRA and align them myself (e.g. with maq or bwa).

[steven]

Hey,

The Encode project is generating tons of data, including aligned reads.
You can access all this from the UCSC, see for instance the ENCODE Caltech RNA-seq track. More info (well, much more, muchomaas) about other tracks is available in the table browser section, but to download i recommend the ftp: for instance, from this page, the 4 first files are aligned reads from RNA-seq experiments (on hg18).

Now, if at some point you find another public source of already aligned reads, could you please let me know? I am interested in the very same thing.

cheers,
s.