Ask any molecular plant biologist about RNA extractions and you might just open up the floodgates to the woes of troubleshooting. RNA extraction is a notoriously tricky and sensitive lab procedure. New protocols out of the University of Florida are ...
Read More »Low-cost, low-input RNA-seq protocols perform nearly as well as high-input protocols
Recently, a number of protocols extending RNA-sequencing to the single-cell regime have been published. However, we were concerned that the additional steps to deal with such minute quantities of input sample would introduce serious biases that would make analysis of ...
Read More »High-quality RNA extraction from crustaceans for next-gen sequencing
Despite the ecological importance of copepods, few Next Generation Sequencing studies (NGS) have been performed on small crustaceans, and a standard method for RNA extraction is lacking. In this study, researchers at the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station, Italy compared three ...
Read More »Influence of RNA extraction methods and library selection schemes on RNA-seq data
Gene expression analysis by RNA sequencing is now widely used in a number of applications surveying the whole transcriptomes of cells and tissues. The recent introduction of ribosomal RNA depletion protocols, such as RiboZero, has extended the view of the ...
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