Project description:Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged as a central genome-wide method to characterize cellular identities and processes. Consequently, improving its sensitivity, flexibility, and cost-efficiency can advance many research questions. Among the flexible plate-based methods, single-cell RNA barcoding and sequencing (SCRB-seq) is highly sensitive and efficient. Here, we systematically evaluate experimental conditions of this protocol and find that adding polyethylene glycol considerably increases sensitivity by enhancing cDNA synthesis. Furthermore, using Terra polymerase increases efficiency due to a more even cDNA amplification that requires less sequencing of libraries. We combined these and other improvements to develop a scRNA-seq library protocol we call molecular crowding SCRB-seq (mcSCRB-seq), which we show to be one of the most sensitive, efficient, and flexible scRNA-seq methods to date.
2018-07-26 | GSE103568 | GEO
Project description:MiDAS DNA Extraction and primer choice
Project description:We have developed and characterised functionally and molecularly a new chemically-defined protocol for the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into brown adipocytes (BAs) that overcomes current limitations This protocol recapitulates step-by-step the physiological developmental path of human BAT. The BAs obtained expresses brown adipocyte and thermogenic markers, are insulin sensitive, and responsive to β-adrenergic stimuli. This new protocol is scalable, enabling the study of human BAs at early stages of development.
Project description:Double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) continuously arise and are a source of mutations and chromosomal rearrangements. Here, we present DSBCapture, a sequencing-based method that captures DSBs in situ and directly maps these at single nucleotide resolution enabling the study of DSB origin. DSBCapture shows substantially increased sensitivity and data yield compared to other methods. Employing DSBCapture, we uncovered a striking relationship between DSBs and elevated transcription within nucleosome-depleted chromatin. 6 library samples, 75 base pairs (50 bp for the EcoRV library) custom protocol (DSBCapture or BLESS) sequenced as paired-end reads on Illumina NextSeq 500 (MiSeq for EcoRV library): 1 replicate for the EcoRV library, 1 replicate for the library coming from the U2OS AID-DlvA cell line with AsiSI restriction enzyme, 2 replicates for the BREAk-seq NHEK libraries and 2 replicates for the BLESS NHEK libraries. 4 RNA-Seq library samples from HEK Gibco cells, single-end sequencing on the Illumina NextSeq 500, 75 base pairs.
Project description:Efforts to identify ccRNA by sequencing by gibson circularization after template-switching 5' RACE using a cRNA-end specific primer and subsequent sequencing by Illumina miSeq. Sequencing of wild-type A/WSN/1933 and a variant bearing the mutation T677A in the PB1 subunit.
2024-09-10 | GSE276698 | GEO
Project description:Illumina MiSeq 16S rRNA meta-barcoding of slow-growing RedBro Chicken feces at different ages
Project description:Zhao et al. Amplification Table 9 This experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of the amount of input total RNA on the fidelity, reproducibility, and yield of T7 based RNA linear amplification. BC2 total RNA was amplified using the Jeffrey lab protocol. Different amounts of T7 primer were used according to the quantity of input total RNA. Multiple amplifications were done for each quantity of input total RNA to minimize experimental variations. Set of arrays organized by shared biological context, such as organism, tumors types, processes, etc. Keywords: Logical Set
Project description:For analysis of mRNA expression levels, total RNA was harvested from each cell-line in replicate with Trizol™ (Thermo scientific). Total RNA was purified using Direct-zol™ columns according to the manufacturers specifications (Zymo Research). For cDNA synthesis 1 μg of total RNA was process as the T12VN-PAT assay (Jänicke et al., RNA 2012), except that this was adapted for multiplexing on the Illumina MiSeq instrument. We refer to this assay as mPAT for multiplexed PAT. The approach is based on a nested-PCR that sequentially incorporates the Illumina platform’s flow-cell specific terminal extensions onto 3’ RACE PCR amplicons. First, cDNA was generated using the anchor primer mPAT Reverse, next this primer and a pool of 50 gene-specific primers were used in 5 cycles of amplification. Each gene-specific primer had a universal 5’ extension (see supplementary file primers) for sequential addition of the 5’ (P5) Illumina elements. These amplicons were then purified using NucleoSpin columns (Macherey-Nagel), and entered into second round amplification using the universal Illumina Rd1 sequencing Primer and TruSeq indexed reverse primers from Illumina. Second round amplification was for 14 cycles. Note, that each experimental condition was amplified separately in the first round with identical primers. In the second round, a different indexing primer was used for each experimental condition. All PCR reactions were pooled and run using the MiSeq Reagent Kit v2 with 300 cycles (i.e. 300 bases of sequencing) according to the manufacturers specifications. Data were analysed using established bioinformatics pipelines (Harrison et al., RNA 2015)
Project description:This experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of the amount of input total RNA on the fidelity, reproducibility, and yield of T7 based RNA linear amplification. BC2 total RNA was amplified using the Jeffrey lab protocol. Different amounts of T7 primer were used according to the quantity of input total RNA. Multiple amplifications were done for each quantity of input total RNA to minimize experimental variations.