• Question: How long does it take to create the data?

    Asked by anon-273583 to Ashleigh on 11 Dec 2020.
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      Ashleigh Cheyne answered on 11 Dec 2020:

      Hi! It depends on what data you’re trying to make. In my lab we usually do very big RNA sequencing experiments, which is where you take the RNA from patients with a disease and from healthy people to compare the RNA between the two. RNA is a measure of which bits of your DNA is actually switched on, because not all of it is at once. At the moment I’m working on RNA from people with tuberculosis from South Africa, and it took years (maybe even more than 5) to get the samples ready for analysis, and it’s taking me a couple of months to analyse.

      But I’m working on other projects too which have taken about 2-3 years each to get all the samples and analyse it all.

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