Author Archives: Alex

Complete and haplotype-specific sequence assembly of segmental duplication-mediated genome rearrangements using targeted CRISPR-targeted ultra-long read sequencing (CTLR-Seq)

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Alex

October 2020 Authors: Bo Zhou, GiWon Shin, Stephanie U. Greer, Lisanne Vervoort, Yiling Huang, Reenal Pattni, Marcus Ho, Wing H. Wong, Joris R. Vermeesch, Hanlee P. Ji, Alexander E. Urban Info: In this preprint the authors report on a method, … more »

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Ultra-low input single tube linked-read library method enables short-read second-generation sequencing systems to generate highly accurate and economical long-range sequencing information routinely generate highly accurate and economical long-range sequencing information

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Alex

June 2020 Authors: Zhoutao Chen, Long Pham, Tsai-Chin Wu, Guoya Mo, Yu Xia, Peter L Chang, Devin Porter, Tan Phan, Huu Che, Hao Tran, Vikas Bansal, Justin Shaffer, Pedro Belda-Ferre, Gregory Humphrey, Rob Knight, Pavel Pevzner, Son Pham, Yong Wang … more »

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CRISPR–Cas9/long-read sequencing approach to identify cryptic mutations in BRCA1 and other tumour suppressor genes

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Alex

October 2020 Authors: Tom Walsh, Silvia Casadei, Katherine M Munson, Mary Eng, Jessica B Mandell, Suleyman Gulsuner, Mary-Claire King Info: In this short report, researchers studying young-onset breast cancer used the SageHLS and HLS-CATCH method to purify high molecular weight … more »

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Sage Science to Distribute Universal Sequencing Technology’s TELL-Seq™ Linked-Read NGS Library Prep Kits

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Alex

BEVERLY, Mass., and CANTON, Mass. — October 26, 2020 — Sage Science, a developer of products for improving sample preparation processes in life science applications, and Universal Sequencing Technology today announced a distribution agreement to improve scientists’ access to long-range … more »

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Unleash Your Illumina Sequencer with TELL-Seq™ Linked Reads

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Alex

We’re proud to announce today that we will be selling TELL-Seq™ linked library prep kits from Universal Sequencing Technology. TELL-Seq, Transposase Enzyme Linked Long-read Sequencing, is a scalable NGS library technology with a very simple workflow that can provide you … more »

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A long-read RNA-seq approach to identify novel transcripts of very large genes

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Alex

July 2020 Authors: Prech Uapinyoying, Jeremy Goecks, Susan M. Knoblach, Karuna Panchapakesan, Carsten G. Bonnemann, Terence A. Partridge, Jyoti K. Jaiswal, and Eric P. Hoffman Info: Scientists researching muscular disorders present a method for studying gene expression of large RNA … more »

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Fully phased sequence of a diploid human genome determined de novo from the DNA of a single individual

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Alex

July 2020 Authors: Ilya Soifer , Nicole L. Fong, Nelda Yi, Andrea T. Ireland, Irene Lam, Matthew Sooknah, Jonathan S. Paw, Paul Peluso, Gregory T. Concepcion, David Rank, Alex R. Hastie, 5 Vladimir Jojic, J. Graham Ruby, David Botstein, Margaret … more »

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Highly accurate long-read HiFi sequencing data for five complex genomes

Posted on May 19, 2020 by Alex

May 2020 Authors: Ting Hon, Kristin Mars, Greg Young, Yu-Chih Tsai, Joseph W. Karalius, Jane M. Landolin, Nicholas Maurer, David Kudrna, Michael A. Hardigan, Cynthia C. Steiner, Steven J. Knapp, Doreen Ware, Beth Shapiro, Paul Peluso, David R. Rank Info: … more »

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Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Alex

April 2020 Authors: Giorgia G. Auteri & L. Lacey Knowles Info: Little brown bats have experienced a 90% population decline due to fungal pathogen that causes a disease, white-nose syndrome. The authors used ddRADseq to compare surviving and non-surviving individuals. … more »

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A restriction enzyme reduced representation sequencing approach for low-cost, high-throughput metagenome profiling

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Alex

April 2020 Authors: Melanie K. Hess, Suzanne J. Rowe, Tracey C. Van Stijn, Hannah M. Henry, Sharon M. Hickey, Rudiger Brauning, Alan F. McCulloch, Andrew S. Hess, Michelle R. Kirk, Sandeep Kumar, Cesar Pinares-Patiño, Sandra Kittelmann, Graham R. Wood, Peter … more »

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