Digital transcriptome profiling using selective hexamer priming for cDNA synthesis
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Expression Analysis of Mammalian Linker-histone Subtypes
Published on: March 19, 2012
Christopher D Armour1, John C Castle, Ronghua Chen
1Department of Molecular Informatics, Rosetta Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck and Co., Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA. christopher_armour@merck.com
Abstract:
We developed a procedure for the preparation of whole transcriptome cDNA libraries depleted of ribosomal RNA from only 1 microg of total RNA. The method relies on a collection of short, computationally selected oligonucleotides, called 'not-so-random' (NSR) primers, to obtain full-length, strand-specific representation of nonribosomal RNA transcripts. In this study we validated the technique by profiling human whole brain and universal human reference RNA using ultra-high-throughput sequencing.
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