To identify circulating miRNA biomarkers for AD, researchers from Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Japan reanalyzed a publicly available small RNA-Seq dataset, composed of blood samples derived from 48 AD patients and 22 normal control (NC) subjects, by a simple web-based miRNA ...
Read More »Optimization of Extraction of Circulating RNAs from Plasma – Enabling Small RNA Sequencing
There are several protocols and kits for the extraction of circulating RNAs from plasma with a following quantification of specific genes via RT-qPCR. Due to the marginal amount of cell-free RNA in plasma samples, the total RNA yield is insufficient ...
Read More »RNA-Seq with iReport and InSilico DB
RNA-Seq, or transcriptome sequencing, continues to be an exciting way to explore gene expression using next-generation sequencing (NGS). But for many researchers, the interpretation of RNA-Seq data remains a daunting task because they are using spreadsheets to read transcript names ...
Read More »Study finds RNA-Seq, like microarrays, only accurate for relative expression, not absolute quantitation
The collborators at the SEQC/MAQC-III Consortium present primary results from the Sequencing Quality Control (SEQC) project, coordinated by the US Food and Drug Administration. Examining Illumina HiSeq, Life Technologies SOLiD and Roche 454 platforms at multiple laboratory sites using reference ...
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