Project description:14 F1 individuals that resulted from crosses between a 420-CEN3 reporter line and met1-3/+ plants were subject to whole-genome bisulphite sequencing alongside Col wild-type and met1-3/+ controls
Project description:While Illumina X technology has helped to reduce the cost of whole genome sequencing substantially, its application for bisulphite sequencing is not straightforward. We describe the optimization of a library preparation and sequencing approach that maximizes the yield and quality of sequencing, and how to eliminate a previously unrecognized artefact affecting several percent of bisulphite sequencing reads.
Project description:While Illumina X technology has helped to reduce the cost of whole genome sequencing substantially, its application for bisulphite sequencing is not straightforward. We describe the optimization of a library preparation and sequencing approach that maximizes the yield and quality of sequencing, and how to eliminate a previously unrecognized artefact affecting several percent of bisulphite sequencing reads.
Project description:While Illumina X technology has helped to reduce the cost of whole genome sequencing substantially, its application for bisulphite sequencing is not straightforward. We describe the optimization of a library preparation and sequencing approach that maximizes the yield and quality of sequencing, and how to eliminate a previously unrecognized artefact affecting several percent of bisulphite sequencing reads.
Project description:While Illumina X technology has helped to reduce the cost of whole genome sequencing substantially, its application for bisulphite sequencing is not straightforward. We describe the optimization of a library preparation and sequencing approach that maximizes the yield and quality of sequencing, and how to eliminate a previously unrecognized artefact affecting several percent of bisulphite sequencing reads.
Project description:Library preparation for whole genome bisulphite sequencing (WGBS) is challenging due to side effects of the bisulphite treatment, which leads to extensive DNA damage. Recently, a new generation of methods for bisulphite sequencing library preparation have been devised. They are based on initial bisulphite treatment of the DNA, followed by adaptor tagging of single stranded DNA fragments, and enable WGBS using low quantities of input DNA. In this study, we present a novel approach for quick and cost effective WGBS library preparation that is based on splinted adaptor tagging (SPLAT) of bisulphite-converted single-stranded DNA. Moreover, we validate SPLAT against three commercially available WGBS library preparation techniques, two of which are based on bisulphite treatment prior to adaptor tagging and one is a conventional WGBS method.
Project description:Part of a set of highly integrated epigenome maps for Arabidopsis thaliana. Keywords: Illumina high-throughput bisulfite sequencing Whole genome shotgun bisulfite sequencing of wildtype Arabidopsis plants (Columbia-0), and met1, drm1 drm2 cmt3, and ros1 dml2 dml3 null mutants using the Illumina Genetic Analyzer.
Project description:Bisulphite sequencing enables DNA methylation analysis of every cytosine residue. We have optimized conditions for combining chromatin immunoprecipation (ChIP) with high throughput bisulphite sequencing to study the relationship between histone modifications and DNA methylation.