Forum:Typical costs for RNA-Seq analysis

Question

[ariel.balter]

This is kind of the wrong place to post this question given that we are all analysts who do the work (mostly at universities) rather than sending it out. But I would like to know what companies that do analysis that is out-sourced generally charge. Consider an experiment such as this--three biological replicates, each with three samples:

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sample	treatment	replicate
t1_A	Tx1	A
t2_A	Tx2	A
c_A	control	A
t1_B	Tx1	B
t2_B	Tx2	B
c_B	control	B
t1_C	Tx1	C
t2_C	Tx2	C
c_C	control	C

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What do you think an investigator would need to pay to outsource standard analysis:

1. Sample quality
2. Gene expression per sample
3. Cross-sample FDR within replicate
4. Cross-replicate FDR
5. Pathway analysis
6. Standard visualizations (MDS, PCA, MA, heatmap, venn)

[unksci]

Would the company also do the sequencing? We once got a similar analysis for free though the company initially listed around 50 usd (following sequencing)