Tag Archives: BluePippin

Comparison of Sample Preparation Methods Used for the Next-Generation Sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Alex

February 2016 Authors: Andrea D. Tyler, Sara Christianson, Natalie C. Knox, Philip Mabon, Joyce Wolfe, Gary Van Domselaar, Morag R. Graham, and Meenu K. Sharma Info: In this PLoS One publication, scientists in Manitoba compare the quality of libraries constructed … more »

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The Many Dimensions of Diet Breadth: Phytochemical, Genetic, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives on the Interaction between a Native Herbivore and an Exotic Host

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Alex

February 2016 Authors: Joshua G. Harrison, Zachariah Gompert, James A. Fordyce, C. Alex Buerkle, Rachel Grinstead, Joshua P. Jahner, Scott Mikel, Christopher C. Nice, Aldrin Santamaria, and Matthew L. Forister Info: In this study, scientists analyzed butterflies colonizing several different … more »

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Experimental feline enteric coronavirus infection reveals an aberrant infection pattern and shedding of mutants with impaired infectivity in enterocyte cultures

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Alex

January 2016 Authors: Lowiese M. B. Desmarets, Ben L. Vermeulen, Sebastiaan Theuns, Nádia Conceição-Neto, Mark Zeller, Inge D. M. Roukaerts, Delphine D. Acar, Dominique A. J. Olyslaegers, Marc Van Ranst, Jelle Matthijnssens, and Hans J. Nauwyncka Info: Scientists in Belgium … more »

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Transcriptome profiling of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) accessions in response to salt stress

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Alex

January 2016 Authors: B. Shaun Bushman, Keenan L. Amundsen, Scott E. Warnke, Joseph G. Robins, and Paul G. Johnson Info: Scientists compared the transcriptomes of two strains of Kentucky bluegrass, one sensitive to salt and the other tolerant even to … more »

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Population genomics of intrapatient HIV-1 evolution

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Alex

December 2015 Authors: Fabio Zanini, Johanna Brodin, Lina Thebo, Christa Lanz, Göran Bratt, Jan Albert, and Richard Neher Info: Researchers from Germany and Sweden sequenced several samples collected over time from each of nine patients with HIV-1 to assess genetic … more »

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Long Reads in All Their Glory: PacBio, ONT User Meetings Report Coming Advances

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Alex

A pair of user group meetings last week offered some intriguing glimpses into the future of long-read sequencing. Oxford Nanopore customers got together in New York, while PacBio users assembled in Palo Alto, Calif. The Sage Science team attended and … more »

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Mate-Pair Sequencing Is Having a Moment

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Alex

Have you been noticing the mate-pair trend? We certainly have. A technique that was once only used by a handful of labs has really come into its own as one of the preferred ways of gathering longer-range genomic data. Here … more »

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MicroRNAs in the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis: extending Drosophilid miRNA conservation to the Tephritidae

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Alex

October 2015 Authors: Bernarda Calla and Scott M. Geib Info: Scientists analyzed small RNAs in Bactrocera dorsalis, the oriental fruit fly, and compared the resulting gene expression profile with that of Drosophila melanogaster. BluePippin was used to enrich for cDNAs … more »

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Scarless genome editing and stable inducible expression vectors for Geobacter sulfurreducens

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Alex

August 2015 Authors: Chi Ho Chan, Caleb E. Levar, Lori Zacharoff, Jonathan P. Badalamenti, Daniel R. Bond Info: Scientists from the University of Minnesota report in Applied and Environmental Microbiology the development of genetic system improvements for Geobacter sulfurreducens. BluePippin … more »

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A multidrug resistance plasmid contains the molecular switch for type VI secretion in Acinetobacter baumannii

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Alex

July 2015 Authors: Brent S. Weber, Pek Man Ly, Joshua N. Irwin, Stefan Pukatzki, Mario F. Feldman Info: Scientists from the University of Alberta and Washington University published results in PNAS showing that a large plasmid is important to Acinetobacter … more »

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