Sunday 19 February 2012

Comparison between Normalised and Unnormalised 454-Sequencing Libraries for Small-Scale RNA-Seq Studies.

Comp Funct Genomics. 2012;2012:281693. Epub 2012 Jan 26.

Comparison between Normalised and Unnormalised 454-Sequencing Libraries for Small-Scale RNA-Seq Studies.

Ekblom R, Slate J, Horsburgh GJ, Birkhead T, Burke T.

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Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden.

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing of transcriptomes (RNA-Seq) is being used increasingly in studies of nonmodel organisms. Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of normalising cDNA libraries prior to sequencing in a small-scale study of the zebra finch. We find that assemblies produced from normalised libraries had a larger number of contigs but used fewer reads compared to unnormalised libraries. Considerably more genes were also detected using the contigs produced from normalised cDNA, and microsatellite discovery was up to 73% more efficient in these. There was a positive correlation between the detected expression level of genes in normalised and unnormalised cDNA, and there was no difference in the number of genes identified as being differentially expressed between blood and spleen for the normalised and unnormalised libraries. We conclude that normalised cDNA libraries are preferable for many applications of RNA-Seq and that these can also be used in quantitative gene expression studies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22319409/?tool=pubmed

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