[BioC] OT: Problems with Nimblegen scans?

[Alicia Oshlack]

Hi Jose,

We experienced a similar thing with our custom Nimblegen arrays. We
asked them to rescan the arrays again at a lower setting which improved
things a bit but we still had some saturated probes.

Cheers,
Alicia

Alicia Oshlack, PhD
Division of Bioinformatics
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

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> Hi list,
>
> this is not strictly BioC, but I know there is quite a few people here
> using Nimblegen arrays.
> Has anybody else experienced problems with their scans? In particular,
> I received data that was scanned with settings giving rise to a
> significantly larger amount of saturated features than expected/wanted.
> We had done an experiment comprising 4 hybs, in triplicate (12 chips).
> The first batch was very good (well, except from a duff hyb... which
> they didn't tell me, and only when I started enquiring -my data looked
> weird- they acknowledged the problem and re-hybed it). But the past
> month we did the other two sets, and their scans are too strong.
>
> Anybody else?
>
> Jose
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