What is the lowest amount of DNA I can get away with using for a library prep for a 36bp single read run on the IIX?
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I've fairly routinely used around 50ng. I've occasionally dipped down lower. According to my picogreen machine, my lowest is 5ng. We tweaked the method a bit, doing 18 cycles of PCR before the gel cut rather than 12 cycles afterwards. It doesn't always work, and sometimes we get a bit of PCR duplicatation, but 50ng is reasonably well behaved.
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I'm talking about genomic DNA, mostly for copy number purposes. I've put all the method details in a recent paper http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co...&pmid=20525786
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Originally posted by henry.wood View PostI'm talking about genomic DNA, mostly for copy number purposes. I've put all the method details in a recent paper http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/co...&pmid=20525786
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Originally posted by mimi_lupton View PostI am doing some sequencing to look at copy number variants at low depth. Can I ask why in your paper you use 200bp fragment size, did you use paired end reads? Would it have been possible to have a larger fragment size to allow you to call larger inversions for example?
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The 200bp fragment was partly due to the samples. DNA from FFPE tissues is often already fairly fragmented, so getting 500bp fragments might have been tricky. It's also partly due to convenience, that's what was already happening in the lab, so we didn't have to play around with the covaris too much.
We only used single end reads, again partly due to the fragmentation and partly because the sequencer we use mostly does single end runs. Purely from a copy number point of view, as long as you have enough sequence to trust the alignment for each read, then that's fine. To spot inversions etc using paired end reads we would have needed higher coverage. At the depth we used, we're only getting a read every 3kb or so. That's fine for copy number, and we keep the libraries, so we can always go back and resequence a sample if we want greater resolution.
Hope that makes sense.
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I understand using less adaptor for lower input amounts during Illumina library construction and then altering the number of PCR cycles. Why/how should the PCR primer amounts be adjusted (how much should be used for 50ng input, or 200ng input, etc)?
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I'm trying to automate the Nextera prep, and I'm wondering how to go about the tagmentation cleanup. Yields following Ampure (SPRI) have been substantially lower than with MinElute columns, but columns can't easily be scaled up and the elution volumes on Qiagen plates are way too large not to mention highly variable. Ideally, I'd like to eliminate the tagmentation cleanup all together, but I'm not sure how since simply skipping it doesn't seem to work. Ideas?
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Originally posted by henry.wood View PostHello,
The 200bp fragment was partly due to the samples. DNA from FFPE tissues is often already fairly fragmented, so getting 500bp fragments might have been tricky. It's also partly due to convenience, that's what was already happening in the lab, so we didn't have to play around with the covaris too much.
We only used single end reads, again partly due to the fragmentation and partly because the sequencer we use mostly does single end runs. Purely from a copy number point of view, as long as you have enough sequence to trust the alignment for each read, then that's fine. To spot inversions etc using paired end reads we would have needed higher coverage. At the depth we used, we're only getting a read every 3kb or so. That's fine for copy number, and we keep the libraries, so we can always go back and resequence a sample if we want greater resolution.
Hope that makes sense.
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We are currently awaiting the results of FFPE exomes. We used the illumina nextera exome kits. They worked with <100ng DNA from FFPE samples. The libraries looked fine, but we won't know how the data turns out for a week or so.
I know people have used sureselect kits with FFPE in the past, but I think they need higher amounts of template. I don't know about truseq.
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