Tweet
Hi everyone, my name is Neha Ashfaq, going by the name of NashBio because they are my initials, and also my github account is also under the same name. I am currently working and completing my master's on inherited breast cancer disease at Dow University of Health Cancer in Karachi, Pakistan. Expertise lies in NGS, Illumina Nextseq 2000, PCR, Linux, Bioinformatics, Python and R. Looking forward to meeting this community!
-
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
Comment