Size of One SOLiD Run

[NextGenSeq]

Can anyone tell me the size in GB of one SOLiD run? I'm just interested in the extracted color data (or fasta sequence) not the image files.

I need to know this to tell our IT people how much space we need to back up the extracted data.

[nilshomer]

Can anyone tell me the size in GB of one SOLiD run? I'm just interested in the extracted color data (or fasta sequence) not the image files.

I need to know this to tell our IT people how much space we need to back up the extracted data.

Depending on the experiment, we average ~40GB per slide (2 slides per run) for the csfasta and qual files. This is after compression (bzip2) and not including the intensities.

We are moving over to the SRA format for storage, which will remove redundancies with respect to the read names. This will reduce the final storage cost as well.