MIDAS/IMS-MDA/ddMDA

Microwell displacement amplification system/Immunomagnetic Separation for Targeted Bacterial Enrichment for MDA/Digital Droplet MDA

Several variations on the original MDA methodã (Dean et al., 2001) such as MIDAS (Gole et al., 2013), ddMDA (Rhee et al., 2016), SNES (Leung et al., 2015), and IMS-MDA (Seth-Smith et al., 2013) ãhave been developed to improve the amplification bias and throughput (Seth-Smith et al., 2013).

Microwell and droplet displacement amplification systems are protocol variations of MDA in which single cells are randomly distributed into hundreds to thousands of nanoliter wells or droplets, and their genetic material is simultaneously amplified (Gole et al., 2013). Sequencing individual cells simplifies the genomic diversity and reduces inherent amplification biases among cells. It results in improved representation and sensitivity in heterogeneous cell populations. In an alternative approach to simplify genomic diversity, IMS-MDA uses immunomagnetic separation for targeted bacterial enrichment (Seth-Smith et al., 2013).

Advantages:

  • Templates used for this method can be circular DNA (eg, plasmids, bacterial DNA)
  • Can sequence large templates
  • Can perform single-cell sequencing or sequencing for samples with limited amounts of starting material

Disadvantages:

  • PCR biases can underrepresent GC-rich templates


Reagents:

Illumina Library prep and Array Kit Selector



Reviews:

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References:

Rhee M., Light Y. K., Meagher R. J. and Singh A. K. Digital Droplet Multiple Displacement Amplification (ddMDA) for Whole Genome Sequencing of Limited DNA Samples. PLoS One. 2016;11:e0153699

Sidore A. M., Lan F., Lim S. W. and Abate A. R. Enhanced sequencing coverage with digital droplet multiple displacement amplification. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016;44:e66

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Nishikawa Y., Hosokawa M., Maruyama T., Yamagishi K., Mori T. and Takeyama H. Monodisperse Picoliter Droplets for Low-Bias and Contamination-Free Reactions in Single-Cell Whole Genome Amplification. PLoS One. 2015;10:e0138733

Bigdeli S., Dettloff R. O., Frank C. W., Davis R. W. and Crosby L. D. A simple method for encapsulating single cells in alginate microspheres allows for direct PCR and whole genome amplification. PLoS One. 2015;10:e0117738

Eastburn D. J., Huang Y., Pellegrino M., Sciambi A., Ptacek L. J. and Abate A. R. Microfluidic droplet enrichment for targeted sequencing. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015;43:e86

Fu Y., Li C., Lu S., et al. Uniform and accurate single-cell sequencing based on emulsion whole-genome amplification. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112:11923-11928