January 8 update
Proposed January 8 goal
Proposed January 8 goal
1000 20 Q17, with reads filtered only using the first four bases.
How we will get there
- Quantify incorporation, cleavage, lead, lag, and decay based on fitted experimental results
- Add images to monitor incorporation and cleavage completion
- Run Mel’s code for lead, lag, and droop values
- UV light coupling improvement
- Increase cleave efficiency
- Reduce dark base generation
- Jon Schultz’s dark microbeads
- Reduce stray light into bulk solution of sequencing reservoir impacting photobleaching, cat’s eye, and dark base generation
- DISCS
- Evaluate point of minimal DISCS + Pol complex interference with sequencing reaction
- Lightning Terminators™
- Test LTs with different dyes or non-dye LTs; Concentration
- One pot buffers
- Many sequencing runs across 2 instruments, automated data mining to aid in selecting quality predictors for non-cherry * picked clusters using 4 base key
- Photoacid
- Automated fast analysis for image pre-processing through signal processing
Current sequencing performance

Best run
Run ID | Library | Cycles | Mapped reads | Longest read length (bp) | >= 10 bp perfect reads | All reads Q score | Real filter Q score |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S0592 | cir16m | 16 | 4927 (54% of all ROIs) | 16 | 958 (19.4% mapped reads) | 4903 10Q10.6 | 1859 10Q13.4 |

Analysis: lead and lag
Incomplete extension (ie) and carry forward (cf): for first 2, 3, 5 cycles fitting
S0592 (AG DISCS)
S0592 | Q_score | ie_exp | cf_exp | dc_exp | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cluster_1268 | CGTATCGACGATGCAG | 30 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 0.13 |
Cluster_1268 | CGTATCGACGATGCAG | 30 | 0.16 | 0.13 | 0.01 |
Cluster_1268 | CGTATCGACGATGCAG | 30 | 0.2 | 0.13 | 0.01 |
Cluster_3718 | ATGCAGTCGACGTACT | 30 | 0.31 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
Cluster_3718 | ATGCAGTCGACGTACT | 30 | 0.36 | 0.05 | 0.105 |
Cluster_3718 | ATGCAGTCGACGTACT | 30 | 0.32 | 0.12 | 0.125 |
Cluster_5806 | TCAGGACGATGACTGC | 7.27 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.52 |
Cluster_5806 | TCAGGACGATGACTGC | 7.27 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.36 |
Cluster_5806 | TCAGGACGATGACTGC | 7.27 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.295 |
Cluster_65 | GACTCTATTCTCAGTA | 6.02 | 0.22 | 0.09 | 0.55 |
Cluster_65 | GACTCTATTCTCAGTA | 6.02 | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.31 |
Cluster_65 | GACTCTATTCTCAGTA | 6.02 | 0.2 | 0.16 | 0.135 |
S0577 (No DISCS)
S0577 | Q_score | ie_exp | cf_exp | dc_exp | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cluster_2532 | CGTATCGACGATGCAG | 12.04 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
Cluster_2532 | CGTATCGACGATGCAG | 12.04 | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.025 |
Cluster_2532 | CGTATCGACGATGCAG | 12.04 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.13 |
Cluster_6083 | ATGCAGTCGACGTACT | 30 | 0.24 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
Cluster_6083 | ATGCAGTCGACGTACT | 30 | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
Cluster_6083 | ATGCAGTCGACGTACT | 30 | 0.26 | 0.07 | 0.01 |
Cluster_10085 | TCAGGACGATGACTGC | 12.04 | 0.15 | 0.18 | 0.025 |
Cluster_10085 | TCAGGACGATGACTGC | 12.04 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.06 |
Cluster_10085 | TCAGGACGATGACTGC | 12.04 | 0.14 | 0.11 | 0.075 |
Cluster_19 | GACTCTATTCTCAGTA | 11.14 | 0.49 | 0.16 | 0.5 |
Cluster_19 | GACTCTATTCTCAGTA | 11.14 | 0.45 | 0.24 | 0.37 |
Cluster_19 | GACTCTATTCTCAGTA | 11.14 | 0.43 | 0.3 | 0.25 |
- High decay in cycle 1 due to large signal loss in the 2nd cycle
- High lag observed for “G” attributed to UV cleavage, with different bases displaying distinct features
- The addition of DISCS results in a decrease in “cf” for G but an overall increase in “dc”
- Generally, “ie” and “dc” perform worse than “cf,” with UV cleavage identified as the primary issue, followed by decay caused by DISCS, and darkbase generation ranking third
Characterization of imaging systems

Mk 3.02

Mk 3.03
Specs | MK3.02 | MK3.03 |
---|---|---|
Magnification | 5.71x | 4.04x |
CMOS Type | SONY IMX477, 1.55um/pixel (*mono$700) | SONY IMX183 2.4um/pixel ($550) |
CMOS to Chip Distance | 210.1mm | 166.9mm |
CMOS size | 6.28x4.71mm (4056x3040 pixel) | 13x8.76mm (5440x3648 pixel) |
FOV (in mm2) | 1.1x0.83mm | 3.23x2.17mm (7.7x larger Img area) |
Imaging Lens | 5x Olympus NA=0.15 ($500) | 5x Bolioptics NA=0.13 ($50) |