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| 10X | Another sequencing company | https://www.10xgenomics.com/ |
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| Adapter | Allows hybridization to the flow cell, contains molecular barcode index (special sequence of synthesized DNA) |
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| AoU |
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| All of Us |
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| Blacklisting |
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| bp |
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| Base pair | ||
| BQMS |
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| Broad Quality Management System. Errors & variation tracking |
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| . | |
| Buffy |
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| coat | A particular layer of centrifuged blood/cell prep | |
| CCLF |
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| Cancer Cell Line Factory |
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| . Part of the |
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| Cancer group at Broad, |
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| GP LIMS/Analytics team working with them |
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| Cell line |
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| cfDNA |
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| Cell-free DNA | ||
| CI |
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| Continuous Improvement | ||
| CMI |
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| Count Me In |
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| . Cancer research project |
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| CRSP |
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| Clinical Research Sequencing Platform | ||
| ExEx |
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| Exome Express |
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| . Special system for faster results turnaround for some exome sequencing products |
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| GAP | Genomics Analysis Platform |
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| . Obsolete group/LIMS at Broad that has been absorbed into Genomics Platform |
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| GPLIM |
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| Jira project for GP LIMS |
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| GSA | Global Screening Array. A chip type | |
| IDT | A company that synthesizes DNA (e.g. for hybrid selection) | |
| Infinium |
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| Insert size |
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| Length of DNA fragments after shearing, before adapter ligation | ||
| LCSET |
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| Library construction set | ||
| Nexome |
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| Exams processed with kits from Nextera? | ||
| ORSP |
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| Office of Research Subject Protection | ||
| PCR |
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| Polymerase chain reaction | ||
| PDO |
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| Product Order | ||
| Pico |
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| Pico-green, a |
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| fluorescent dye used to quant DNA |
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| Pond, bait, etc |
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| . | Hybrid selection terms, hyb sel is a process of creating exomes |
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| Pooling penalty | How similarly represented the different samples are in a pool of samples | |
| Qiagen |
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| Company that makes extraction kits | ||
| RP |
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| Research project | ||
| SPRI |
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| Solid Phase Reversible |
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| Immobiization (AMPure by Agencourt) |
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| TOPMed |
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| Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine |
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| TSCA | Process used for CCLF samples (among others) | |
| VBGP |
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| Verily Broad Genomics Platform??? |
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| aka "Broad |
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| West" | |
| VVP | Volume verified pipetting. A liquid handler robot from Dynamic Devices |
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| WGS |
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| Whole Genome Sequencing |
/wiki/spaces/DSDEGP/pages/475332729
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