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I'm in the process of applying bisulphite PCR amplicon sequencing to the Illumina platform and wondered what peoples thoughts were on whether to use a proof-reading enzyme in the PCR that can read through Uracil's on a bisulphite converted template (I have only come across these two that apparently do):
pfu TURBO Cx Hotstart (Stratagene)
Expand High Fidelity PLUS (Roche)
OR
Do I continue with the standard hotstart Taq we use in the lab for most bisulphite PCR applications which we know to work very well and gives good amplification products (also I have achieved a good optimisation of all my amplicons with this standard Taq).
Some people say that - With the read depth provided by GAII and above, the level of fidelity of standard Taq should not have a major impact on your results. While there is a tenancy to use a proof-reading enzyme in all commercial sequence capture protocols.
Please help - any comments would be grateful
pfu TURBO Cx Hotstart (Stratagene)
Expand High Fidelity PLUS (Roche)
OR
Do I continue with the standard hotstart Taq we use in the lab for most bisulphite PCR applications which we know to work very well and gives good amplification products (also I have achieved a good optimisation of all my amplicons with this standard Taq).
Some people say that - With the read depth provided by GAII and above, the level of fidelity of standard Taq should not have a major impact on your results. While there is a tenancy to use a proof-reading enzyme in all commercial sequence capture protocols.
Please help - any comments would be grateful
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