What does it mean by "Next Generation Sequencing data integration"?

Question

[Prakki Rama]

Dear all,

Many times, I come across this word called "NGS data integration" (especially in job postings). I understand it is analysis and integrating concepts like transcriptomics and genomics etc. But practically, I would like to have little more deeper insight with relevant example situations. I would be very thankful to your thoughts and valuable resource materials. Please spare me if I could not make the question clear or answered previously in some other form elsewhere.

Thank you,

Prakki Rama.

*I did not know whether to post this as a question or forum. I would be happy to leave the decision to administrators.

Answer 1

[Devon Ryan]

You can either consider that to mean integration of multiple NGS data types or combining NGS with other types of data (be it behavioral or some other phenotypic trait). A random example of the former (chosen only because I just read it) would be this paper, which combined bisulfite sequencing, ChIPseq, ChIP-qPCR, RNAseq and Western blots to look at the role of DNA methylation and MeCP2 binding in alternative splicing.

[Prakki Rama]

Thank you very much. I will go through the paper.