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We just wanted to say hi to the group as AllSeq has started posting to SEQanswers as an approved vendor. (Personally, I’ve been a part of SEQanswers since 2008 posting as scbaker). We follow all of the platforms and keep a close eye on the NGS market, so feel free to pick our brains if you’d like a neutral opinion on something you’ve read about. We’ve posted something over in the vendor forum if you’re interested in learning more about what we do.
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I’m not a sequencing expert. I’m a purification scientist who uses NGS to evaluate workflows my group develops. With this perspective, we think about the sample first and the NGS workflow second. The sequencer is an exceptionally honest reporter, but it can only report on what you give it, so whether you get clean, interpretable data from an NGS workflow is largely determined before you begin.
Here are nine questions we think about, in roughly the order they matter, before...06-18-2026, 07:11 AM -
Data variability is still an issue in sequencing technologies despite the advances in reproducibility and accuracy of these platforms. But the problem does not originate in the sequencing itself, but in the previous steps, before the sample reaches the sequencer.
The first step is collection, followed by preservation and sample preparation for analysis. Most scientists overlook those steps, but not being careful might just be skewing the experiment’s results.
...06-02-2026, 10:05 AM