Getting the most out of Machines Chapters: 04:30 PhiX 14:30 low complexity 19:30 UMIs 32:10 FastQC 43:00 MultiQC 56:40 PycoQC PhiX concentrations for loading a validation run: https://knowledge.illumina.com/instrumentation/general/instrumentation-general-reference_material-list/000001536 Dnatech on why UMIs are used: https://dnatech.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/faqs/what-are-umis-and-why-are-they-used-in-high-throughput-sequencing/ BMH learning on UMIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPMsnhIBK0 FastQC for QC of .fastq(.gz) files: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/ A FastQC report from a „good“ sample: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/good_sequence_short_fastqc.html multiqc for summarizing QC reports: https://multiqc.info/ UMI-tools for working with UMI data: https://umi-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ pycoQC for Nanopore QC: https://github.com/a-slide/pycoQC Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).