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Sequencing with 10X genomics

I am planning to do single cell RNA-seq with 10X genomic platform. I was wondering if there are any rules to select how many cells I should use and how many reads per cell will be optimal. I have looked into 10x web page (https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/sequencing/doc/specifications-sequencing-requirements-for-single-cell-3) and googled this. There are lots of variations in different publications fro the number of cells sequenced and number of reads per cell. Any suggestion

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Have you considered contacting 10x support directly? They should have this information.

BTW: Page you linked clearly says this

Recommended Sequencing: 50,000 reads/cell*

there is lot of variation in reads per cell, some go upto 100K to several millions of reads. That is the major cause of confusion. I will write to 10X

You should also add information here about what kind of cells you are looking to sequence and for what organism (to get an idea of genome/transcriptome complexity/size).

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