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Does Anyone Know If One Can Access The Seqc Data

Hi all, Simple question here: Has anyone heard or seen anything about the SEQC data set? http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/BioinformaticsTools/MicroarrayQualityControlProject/default.htm#MAQC-IIIalsoknownasSEQC

Description from the link above:

The third phase of the MAQC project (MAQC-III), also called Sequencing Quality Control (SEQC), aims at assessing the technical performance of next-generation sequencing platforms by generating benchmark datasets with reference samples and evaluating advantages and limitations of various bioinformatics strategies in RNA and DNA analyses.

Sounds very useful, but I can't seem to find any data related to this project. Any ideas?

EDIT: It sounds like the MAQC phase 1 or phase 2 release contained 1000 genes validated with qPCR. Does anyone knows how to access that data ?

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written by richardc.gsc • richardc.gsc

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I am not sure what the full data set looks like, but some of it seems to be here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE49712

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written by Mikael Huss Mikael Huss

Thanks Mikael. The paper references the SEQC dataset, but all I can find in the link are the hiSeq sequences rather than the expected values from the control data set. Any ideas?

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written by richardc.gsc • richardc.gsc

In the link provided by Mikael, you can search any items with the tag TAQ e.g. MAQC_TAQ_1_A1, those are the Taqman rtPCR data and those were used as a reference to the "true" expression of those 1000+ genes. However, this dataset was used for the microarray data. So it is not sure if the A1 correspond to the same A1 in the RNA Sequencing experiment.

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written by Sam Sam

Thanks for the clarification.

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written by Mikael Huss Mikael Huss

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