Illumina interview question

Explain the difference between RNAseq and exome/WGS/methylation sequencing.

Interview Answer

Anonymous

Feb 5, 2018

The DNA/RNA we're targeting and the question we want to answer differs. RNAseq focuses on the transcriptome, while the exome sequencing on protein coding regions of DNA, WGS on the entire genome and methylation sequencing on assessing methylation for epigenetic studies.