With the annual ABRF conference rapidly approaching, we wanted to take a moment to thank the many core lab teams who have adopted Pippin instruments for automated DNA size selection. Some of these customers have independently conducted studies of size selection methods and have demonstrated that Pippin outperforms other options for precision and reproducibility of sizing.
We have profiled the work of several of our core lab customers. If you haven’t read about them, check these out now for great tips on how and when to use size selection for optimal results. These customers use Pippin with every commercially available next-gen sequencing platform, and for applications ranging from splice variant analysis and ChIP-seq to microRNA isolation and de novo genome assembly.
Core lab: GenCore at New York University’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology
Manager: Paul Scheid
Key applications: DNA sequencing, tracking structural variants, and ddRAD-seq population genetics projects
Core lab: Molecular Biology Core Facilities at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate director: Zach Herbert
Key application: Pairing Pippin Prep with Illumina’s Nextera sample prep for small genome studies and for some larger amplicon projects
Core lab: DNA Facility at the University of Iowa
Director: Kevin Knudtson
Key application: Isolating microRNAs
Core lab: Norwegian High-Throughput Sequencing Centre, the University of Oslo
Daily Leader: Lex Nederbragt
Key application: Extending PacBio® sequencer read lengths
Core lab: DNA Technologies Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada
Group Leader: Andrew Sharpe
Key application: Creating multiple libraries with different insert sizes to boost accuracy of the genome assembly
Core lab: BioMicro Center at MIT
Director: Stuart Levine
Key applications: Splice variant analysis with RNA-seq and microRNA analysis
Core lab: Genomics Resource Core, Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland
Laboratory manager: Naomi Sengamalay
Key application: Extending read lengths from the PacBio® sequencer