Monthly Archives: August 2012

Publication: Spike-In Standards for Managing Systematic Sequencing Errors

Here’s a paper worth checking out: “Synthetic Spike-in Standards Improve Run-Specific Systematic Error Analysis for DNA and RNA Sequencing” from lead author Justin Zook at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Published in PLoS One last month, the paper … more »

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Selective Depletion of rRNA Enables Whole Transcriptome Profiling of Archival Fixed Tissue

August 2012 Authors: John D. Morlan, Kunbin Qu, Dominick V. Sinicropi Info: After selective depletion of rRNA by RNAse H digestion (following hybridization to rDNA probes), undigested RNA was prepared for NGS sequencing using Illumina TruSeq or Epicentre Script-seq kits. … more »

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