Quality Control & Normalization

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→ Coverage depth

How many short reads mapped to a genome sequence?


→ Sample size

How deep do we have to sequence?


→ RPKM calculation

Normalization for comparing gene coverage values


→ Phred score (Q score)

Measure for base quality


→ Giga base pairs

Sequence length in numbers of base pairs


→ GC content

Guanine-cytosine (GC) content of a genome sequence