I spoke with my FAS who explained that the capture beads are better at holding onto the library frags.
We've had some runs that have also had higher mixed/dot and short reads. It started before the rapid kit though.
We based on cpb on past experience rather than the microplate data. We only use the microplate data to dilute to 10^7.
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Originally posted by pmiguel View PostI would check your fragmentation sizes prior to ligation. Downstream changes in library construction should not affect that. If it does, then there has been some change in your nebulization set up that is at fault.
Err -- just to make sure this isn't something trivial: what are you measuring your fragment lengths with? If you are using a nano or picoRNA bioanalyzer chip (like one used to do with the old method) then keep in mind that your library is double stranded now and will appear to be roughly twice as "long" on chips intended to assay single stranded molecules. (I don't think the denaturation step prior to loading a nano or picoRNA chip would be sufficient to denature 600 bp fragments of DNA.)
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Originally posted by LMcSeq View PostSeqMonster: Keep in mind that the DNA capture beads are now much more efficient than they previously were. You may need to adjust your cpb input if you aren't doing titration to optimize. We used to use 2 cpb and now we're down to 1 and probably going lower.
Attached is the agilent trace after the library preparation and the read length from the RunBrowser.
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Originally posted by pmiguel View PostI don't have an answer, but it should not be possible to get 100% enrichment--there are not enough enrichment beads for this to happen. In cases where something goes badly awry with calculations we have had libraries where vastly more (eg 40X) more library than is called for, we get something like 40% enrichment.
What does GS support say?
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The weird thing is I was preparing 2 cups with the same DNA and this only happen on one of the cups. The other one is perfectly enriched and sequenced.
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Originally posted by LMcSeq View PostSeqMonster: Keep in mind that the DNA capture beads are now much more efficient than they previously were. You may need to adjust your cpb input if you aren't doing titration to optimize. We used to use 2 cpb and now we're down to 1 and probably going lower.
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Originally posted by LMcSeq View PostSeqMonster: Keep in mind that the DNA capture beads are now much more efficient than they previously were. You may need to adjust your cpb input if you aren't doing titration to optimize. We used to use 2 cpb and now we're down to 1 and probably going lower.
Also, how are you assaying "copies"? Straight fluorimetry? Fluorimetry using the wacky dye-labeled Rapid Adaptors?
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SeqMonster: Keep in mind that the DNA capture beads are now much more efficient than they previously were. You may need to adjust your cpb input if you aren't doing titration to optimize. We used to use 2 cpb and now we're down to 1 and probably going lower.
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Originally posted by SeqMonster View PostHi guys, I just started using the rapid kit not long ago and did 2 runs from those libraries. The first one turned out to have >1million reads but with a lot of short reads and the second one has very high mixed&dots even though the enrichment is around 9%. Now, I am doing the third one and some weird thing happened.
I set up 2 cups of LV emPCR using the same amount and same source of DNA, one worked nicely with around 9% enrichment but the other one has almost 100% enrichment. The emulsion didn't appear to be broken and we couldn't figure out what was happening. We repeated the emPCR with the same amount of DNA and same thing happened again. Does anyone has any idea what's going on?
Thanks.
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What does GS support say?
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New problem - 100% enrichment
Hi guys, I just started using the rapid kit not long ago and did 2 runs from those libraries. The first one turned out to have >1million reads but with a lot of short reads and the second one has very high mixed&dots even though the enrichment is around 9%. Now, I am doing the third one and some weird thing happened.
I set up 2 cups of LV emPCR using the same amount and same source of DNA, one worked nicely with around 9% enrichment but the other one has almost 100% enrichment. The emulsion didn't appear to be broken and we couldn't figure out what was happening. We repeated the emPCR with the same amount of DNA and same thing happened again. Does anyone has any idea what's going on?
Thanks.
/yw
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Originally posted by Old guy View PostI have made 10 libraries with the rapid kit. All came out very well based on the quantification and HS Bioanalyzer results. When the first two were amplified with emPCR the results were poor. Low bead count. Anybody else experiencing this? Any suggestions?
We don't trust the fluorescence assay. I mean, even in principle it does not appear like it would be diagnostic. That is, say your library consisted of fragments with adaptor ligated only to one end. They will not amplify at all, but on the fluorimeter the library may look fine. This is a reasonable example because if end repair did not work well, then this is exactly the situation you will end up in.
For example imagine a library constructed with the following characteristic:
10% of the fragment ends are ligatable. The resulting library molecules will partition as follows:
90% No adaptor
9% One adaptor
1% Two adaptors
Only the two adaptor molecules will amplify. But there are 9x more one adaptor molecules that will fluoresce 50% as intensely as the two adaptor molecules but they will not amplify. So you will end up putting roughly 20% of the library into your emPCR than what you need if you trust the fluorescence.
We do qPCR and then do emPCR based on that. qPCR takes longer but at least it should specifically detect amplicons.
Generally you need ~5-20% recovery upon emPCR enrichment to have enough beads to run but not a high percentage of mixed beads. So there is some leeway there. Still we end up too high or too low as much as 50% of the time. That will probably improve with experience, but our end results are good now.
The Roche protocols tend to have a lot of fault tolerance built into them, but sometimes they will include a few steps that are designed by bench magicians for bench magicians. Keeps you head from swelling too much, I guess...
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I have made 10 libraries with the rapid kit. All came out very well based on the quantification and HS Bioanalyzer results. When the first two were amplified with emPCR the results were poor. Low bead count. Anybody else experiencing this? Any suggestions?
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Originally posted by Cambridge454 View PostI am also having problems with the Rapid Library producing really long average fragment lengths >900bp. I use the recommended nebulization settings, which worked perfectly well for old version Shotgun libraries (600bp avg.). I have used the new vented caps and the rubber stopper/filter nebulizer set-up with very similar results. Should I increase the nitrogen pressure to say 2.5 bar instead of 2.1 bar?
Err -- just to make sure this isn't something trivial: what are you measuring your fragment lengths with? If you are using a nano or picoRNA bioanalyzer chip (like one used to do with the old method) then keep in mind that your library is double stranded now and will appear to be roughly twice as "long" on chips intended to assay single stranded molecules. (I don't think the denaturation step prior to loading a nano or picoRNA chip would be sufficient to denature 600 bp fragments of DNA.)
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Cambridge454--I get long frag lengths with using the Covaris as well. If you adjust the nebulization, I would add more time rather than change the pressure. Try doing a time course study (that's what I did with the Covaris). Shear at the same pressure for different amts of time and assess on the Bioanalyzer. Unfortunately, I think the longer fragment lengths are just part of the rapid library process. I'm just hoping it doesn't cause preferential amplification of smaller frags since the larger ones may not fit into the microreactor bubbles during emPCR.
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Rapid Library length problems
I am also having problems with the Rapid Library producing really long average fragment lengths >900bp. I use the recommended nebulization settings, which worked perfectly well for old version Shotgun libraries (600bp avg.). I have used the new vented caps and the rubber stopper/filter nebulizer set-up with very similar results. Should I increase the nitrogen pressure to say 2.5 bar instead of 2.1 bar?
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Hi everybody,
does anyone experienced emPCR inhibition problems when using shotgun rapid libraries?
Thanks,
bia
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