Question: Approximitly how long would it taky to do a project ?

Ciarán O'Brien answered on 20 Nov 2014:

If everything went well, I could have a typical project done in less than a month. I need to get bacteria out of my samples, then get the DNA out of the bacteria, then clean up and purify the DNA, and then turn it into computer data in the sequencing machine. A project usually involves around 50-60 samples, and turning all of those to data would take 2-3 weeks. Then I could spend the next week analysing the data and writing up the results.

No project ever goes perfectly though! There’ll always be something that goes wrong, whether I make a mistake working through the samples, or there’s a queue for the sequencing machine, or a delivery of chemicals you needed was a week late, or something else. So more often a typical project takes between a month and 2 months, thanks to delays and other things getting in the way.