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  • exome indexing problem

    Hope somebody nice, and clever, out there might be able to give me advice...I am a bit clueless about this and have quite a small brain too...

    I've got some samples that i ran on sureselect using the low starting amount protocol.

    Next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized the pace at which whole genome and exome sequences can be generated. However, despite these advances, many of the methods for targeted resequencing, such as the generation of high-depth exome sequences, are somewhat limited by the relatively large amounts of starting DNA that are normally required. In the case of tumour analysis this is particularly pertinent as many tumour biopsies often return submicrogram quantities of DNA, especially when tumours are microdissected prior to analysis. Here, we present a method for exome capture and resequencing using as little as 50 ng of starting DNA. The sequencing libraries generated by this minimal starting amount (MSA-Cap) method generate datasets that are comparable to standard amount (SA) whole exome libraries that use three micrograms of starting DNA. This method, which can be performed in most laboratories using commonly available reagents, has the potential to enhance large scale profiling efforts such as the resequencing of tumour exomes.


    Clinical samples from FFPE...one patient waiting for rare tumour results fairly urgently.

    It seemed to go well and the libraries looked not brilliant but okay and about the right size on the chip. The cluster and sequencing reports looked fine. Now when I took it to be demultiplexed the guy cannot get any data out (few hundred reads only).

    I wondered if its because this protocol using custom home made adapters and oligos designed to go with the original sureselect kit (2010) before they introduced indexes, I used the indexing postcapture PCR primers from a more recent kit...would that have stoped barcodes being attached while still amplifying the capture product??? I did have a look through the old protocols and the names of the adapters and primers are different.

    I also wondered if the degraded DNA had stopped the adapters from ligating but presumably there would be no sequence at all if so, and no amplification on the PCR steps?

    I have extremely limited amounts of material but have saved some from after precapture PCR enough to do another hybridisation, and I would be very grateful for some advice about how to proceed after this.

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    Do I understand correctly that you used some home made adapter and combined that with the post capture PCR primers provided by Agilent?
    How are the Qscores for the index read?

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