Long-reads require long DNA molecules which require high molecular weight (and undamaged) DNA. Extraction with your standard column is unlikely to be optimal. I’m starting to look at the best methods for HMW DNA extraction for long-read applications as my lab is supporting a couple of […]
Confession: this post may not actually make your 10X Genomics experiments ten times cheaper…but implement Demuxlet in your workflow and with the right sort of experiment you might just get there! Single-cell RNA-Seq might just have got a whole lot cheaper, thanks to a method […]
Two publications presenting really cool technologies recently caught my attention: “Lego for molecular biology” and “CATCH-Seq: CRISPR for target enrichment sequencing”. Both are technologies I’d like to play with, and my son can join in the Lego modelling if we build some here in Cambridge! Lego […]
A paper published one month ago in Nature Genetics: Stessman et al 2017, by Evan Eichler’s group at HHMI, reported finding 91 genes associated with neuro-developmental disorders. 25 of these were enriched in autism probands and the authors reported a “network associated with high-functioning autism (full-scale IQ >100)”. […]
For me one of the top talks at #AGBT17 was in a concurrent session. Theodore Davis from New England Biolabs presented “APOBEC-Seq: An enzymatic method for methylome analysis at single-base resolution without bisulfite treatment.” His talk focused on some of the cons of using sodium bisulfite sequencing for methylation in epigenetic […]
Cambridge Epigenetix (@CEGX_news) have a list of almost 50 papers on their website using their technology for DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation analysis, which I thought readers of CoreGenomics might be interested in. They also have a list of Epigenetics Conferences coming up….enjoy! The papers: Chen et […]
Nanostring had an interesting poster presented by Joe Beecham at last years AGBT describing their novel single-molecule hybridization-based sequencing chemistry (see AGBT and JPMorgan 2016 coverage from GenomeWeb). This utilizes the Nanostring optical barcodes in a new configuration to deliver Hyb&Seq: no amplification, no enzymes, and no […]
In this post I describe an idea for using SNP fingerprinting for single-cell RNA-Seq to identify which sample each individual cell comes from in a multiplexed library prep. The reason for my thinking about this is that single-cell experiments are expensive. Although the cost-per-cell can […]
We do lots of DNA, RNA and NGS library normalisations mostly by hand after calculating dilutions in Excel. It works well but is cumbersome and prone to error. We’re fortunate to have an Agilent Bravo robot and are now automating more of this with excellent […]
I’m continuing a series of posts that will highlight small advances we’ve made in the lab that are unlikely to be published in their own right, this time its the turn of SPRI-bead clean-ups and how we used them to rescue some samples that would […]
