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Parameter Description<br />

Application<br />

Descriptions<br />

<strong>Applied</strong> <strong>Biosystems</strong> SOLiD 4 <strong>System</strong> <strong>SETS</strong> <strong>Software</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Chapter 2 Prepare Run Settings<br />

Set analysis parameters 2<br />

Exposure Time In the SOLiD 4 <strong>System</strong>, every panel could technically have a different<br />

exposure value within a channel.<br />

This metric tracks the mean exposure time over all panels and reports the<br />

highest of the four channels. Increasing exposure times can indicate problems<br />

in the sequence.<br />

If the exposure time jumps too high too quickly, the signal on the beads is<br />

decreasing too quickly cycle over cycle, and there will likely be problems<br />

achieving longer read lengths.<br />

Vibration, or other issues, can also up the exposure time as the beads<br />

become larger due to blur and the exposures increase in order to get sufficient<br />

signal spread over a larger area.<br />

An increase in exposure time by itself is not a problem, but it is a warning sign<br />

that is valuable when taken into consideration with the other available run<br />

metrics to diagnose potential problems.<br />

Exposure times are ‘effective’ exposure times; they are a combination of both<br />

the exposure time and the gain.<br />

There are two types of applications available for the secondary<br />

analysis settings<br />

SingleTag<br />

IQ<br />

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