Library construction for next-generation sequencing: Overviews and challenges

BioTechniques

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 61-77

  Head, Steven R ^a   Kiyomi Komori, H ^a   LaMere, Sarah A ^a   Whisenant, Thomas ^a   Van Nieuwerburgh, Filip ^b   Salomon, Daniel R ^a   Ordoukhanian, Phillip ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ChIP seq; Deep sequencing; DNA; DNA seq; Library preparation; Next generation sequencing; RIP seq; RNA; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; EXOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

CHIP-SEQ; DEEP SEQUENCING; DNA; DNA-SEQ; LIBRARY PREPARATION; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; RIP-SEQ; RNA; RNA-SEQ;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84893522267     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: 19409818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000114133     Document Type: Article

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