Public Helicos Data

[zee]

Does anybody know where I could find some public Helicos sequence data e.g. sequences, quality files, etc.?

I expect these will be in short read format (SRF). The purpose is to modify our free aligner (www.novocraft.com) to handle this data type:

The questions are obvious:

1) Do we see similar error rates, quality dropoff towards 3' end as in Illumina sequences ?

2) Usable read length?

3) Any other 'surprises' unique to this platform?

[xuying]

maybe you can find some information on their open website:

http://open.helicosbio.com

[zee]

Yes, this is quite a useful resource, perhaps it even deserves its own thread. There are public datasets for Digital gene expression, resequencing and GSS.
The heliosphere open software release also contains programs, simulators, pipeline code, etc for working with helicos data.