One of several areas in which we hope we stand out here at EdgeBio is in our up front project design.  There are many people, from our project managers, to lab personnel and management, to our informatics group and even our SAB (See a presentation on Genomic Study Design from Dr. Michael Zody at the Broad) that all play an active role in helping our clients design their genomic projects.  We try to take in to account several global considerations (timelines, technologies, quality, etc) for tailoring each project to the researcher and their goals.  More often than not though, it comes down to cost.  While cheaper is usually not better, it sure is attractive. 

Here at Edge, we strive to be transparent and competitive in our pricing, but can’t always the cheapest.  In the spirit of transparency, we have developed an online tool that we hope will give potential (and current) clients insight in to the cost of designing a project.  Obviously, this is only a single step of many toward the final design, but we hope it will give a sense of the feasibility of a project. We can then move into a concerted design phase.  We hope you find it useful.  Please access the EdgeBio Sequencing Project Price Calculator here: http://www.edgebio.com/sequencing-project-price-calculator

We welcome all feedback.

- Justin