Tag Archives: next-generation sequencing

Fungi are of increasing importance in sepsis. However, culture-based diagnostic procedures are associated with relevant weaknesses. Therefore, culture- and next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based fungal findings as well as corresponding plasma levels of β-d-glucan, interferon gamma (INF-γ), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), ...

Sequencing-based methods to examine fundamental features of the genome, such as gene expression and chromatin structure, rely on inferences from the abundance and distribution of reads derived from Illumina sequencing. Drawing sound inferences from such experiments relies on appropriate mathematical ...

Transcriptome analysis is the determination of differentially expressed genes across experimental conditions. For this, the next-generation sequencing of RNA (RNA-seq) is an increasingly cost-effective technology for the analysis of transcriptomes with several advantages over gene expression microarrays, such as its ...

News Medical Life Sciences by By Catherine Shaffer, M.Sc. – If DNA is the fundamental code of the genome, RNA is the message. Genes are made active through the process of transcribing the code into RNA, and then translating RNA into DNA. This is known as ...

RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) is now commonly used to reveal quantitative spatiotemporal snapshots of the transcriptome, the structures of transcripts (splice variants and fusions) and landscapes of expressed mutations. However, standard approaches for library construction typically require relatively high amounts of input ...

Next-generation sequencing panel tests for full spectrum of childhood cancers Today, a team of investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles launched OncoKidsSM, a next-generation sequencing-based panel specifically designed for pediatric cancers. OncoKidsSM is intended to guide the diagnosis and treatment of ...

Researchers from the National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Hungary  describe a method that enables the high-throughput identification of cleaved mRNA targets of ARGONAUTE/small RNA complexes. The protocol is based on a modified 5′-rapid amplification of cDNA ends combined with deep sequencing of ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) allows ultra-deep sequencing of nucleic acids. The use of sequence-independent amplification of viral nucleic acids without utilization of target-specific primers provides advantages over traditional sequencing methods and allows detection of unsuspected variants and co-infecting agents. However, NGS ...

Spike-in controls are synthetic nucleic-acid sequences that are added to a user’s sample and constitute internal standards for subsequent steps in the next generation sequencing workflow. The Anaquin software toolkit can be used to analyze the performance of spike-in controls ...

Researchers reported changes in the expression levels of 123 genes when reconstituted lung tissue was exposed to cigarette smoke, compared to only two genes that could be confirmed following exposure to e-cigarette aerosols. They also reported increased levels of several ...