Typical costs for RNA-Seq analysis

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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:

| 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         |

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

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

[GenoMax]

Here is one option.

If you are at an academic institution it is very hard to do apple to apple comparisons since most institutions subsidize/discount services/compute time in creative ways so you will not know for sure. But then you are likely looking for a ballpark estimate anyway.

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HA! @GenoMax--that was my post that I made just now and they closed it :-/