Genetic Basis for the Biosynthesis of the Pharmaceutically Important Class of Epoxyketone Proteasome Inhibitors
October 2013
Authors:
Michelle Schorn, Judith Zettler, Joseph P. Noel, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Bradley S. Moore, and Leonard Kaysser
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Collaborators in the U.S. and Germany report on the genetic pathway for the production of epoxyketone proteasome inhibitors, used as anti-cancer therapeutic agents, in bacterial strains. The Pippin Prep was used to size select DNA prior to Ion Torrent sequencing.
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ACS Chem. Biol. 2014, 9, 301−309
Quick, sensitive and specific detection and evaluation of quantification of minor variants by high-throughput sequencing
October 2013
Authors:
Ross Ka-Kit Leung, Zhi Qiang Dong, Fei Sa, Cheong Meng Chong, Si Wan Lei,c Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui and Simon Ming-Yuen Lee
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Scientists from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Macau, China, evaluate errors in detecting minor variants and suggest rules for authenticating the variants and improving accuracy of detection. The Pippin Prep was used for library preparation on the Ion Torrent platform.
Citation:
Mol. BioSyst., 2014, 10, 206
Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes
October 2013
Authors:
PAOLO FRANCHINI, CARMELO FRUCIANO, MARIA L. SPREITZER, JULIA C. JONES, KATHRYN R. ELMER, FREDERICO HENNING and AXEL MEYER
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Researchers at the University of Konstanz, Germany, look at the speciation of chichlid fishes using the ddRAD technique. The Pippin Prep was used to size-select prior to Illumina sequencing. The study indicates a few genomic regions that largely contributed to early divergence.
Citation:
Molecular Ecology (2013)
Improved Protocols for Illumina Sequencing
October 2013
Authors:
Iraad F. Bronner, Michael A. Quail, Daniel J. Turner, and Harold Swerdlow
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A comprehensive overview of the state-of-the state of Illumina sequencing, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. The value of narrow size distribution and Pippin automated size selection is discussed.
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Current Protocols in Human Genetics 18.2.1-18.2.42, October 2013
Next-Generation Sequence Analysis of Cancer Xenograft Models
Authors:
Fernando J. Rossello, Richard W. Tothill, Kara Britt, Kieren D. Marini, Jeanette Falzon, David M. Thomas, Craig D. Peacock, Luigi Marchionni, Jason Li, Samara Bennett, Erwin Tantoso, Tracey Brown, Philip Chan, Luciano G. Martelotto, D. Neil Watkins
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The authors looked at using xenografts as preclinical models for NGS cancer studies. The authors were able to show that mouse specific sequence was easily distinguished from human small cell lung cancer sequences. Pippin Prep size selection was used for whole genome library construction for the Illumina HiSeq.
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PLoS ONE 8(9): e74432