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  • Bioanalyzer and a pippen prep necessary?

    Hi guys,
    we are currently thinking about purchasing the Ion PGM and but Ion torrent recommend to use an Bioanalyzer and a pippen prep for library preparation. But the stuff costs an arm and a leg, do you really need this stuff or are there cheap alternatives?

    Thank you in advance
    Chris
    Last edited by adler89; 04-09-2012, 03:08 AM.

  • #2
    It actually an either/or question - not both.

    The idea behind using the BioAnalyzer is that you can assess your library's quality far far better than using a gel. When we first started running the PGM, using the BioAnalyzer was critical and we saved ourselves from wasting some runs by checking the samples beforehand. However, quite honestly, now that we have run the PGM a few dozen times it rarely is the case that our library preps fail to pass QC.

    So I guess, IMHO, it's not required - but a really good idea to have one-especially at the start. Plus, a BioAnalyzer can. E used for all kinds of other really useful assays in the lab, so it's not something that should be thought of as solely for the PGM.
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    • #3
      not an either/or

      Actually pippen prep is for what I call "preparative scale" analysis. this machine and others like it (LabChip XT for example) are designed to recover the sample. It is the automatic equivalent of running your whole sample on a gel, cutting out the bands, and recovering the DNA from the gel slice. As such it is not an absolute requirement. It really depends on how many samples you will be doing a day or week and if sample prep becomes a bottleneck.
      The Bioanalyzer and its cousin LabChip GX are analytical scale tools to measure DNA size distribution. you could also run a gel for this but a gel is not as sensitive or informative. the size cutoffs for PGM are pretty strict and you need to be sure your preps are going to give you good results. I'd say it is a must-have.

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      • #4
        I agree with SarahNGS, if you have the means, get the BioAnalyzer. If you don't, then you can, in principle, get by without one. Just go into "blind zen archer" mode until after an amplification. Then you can run an agarose or acrylamide gel and see whether you hit your target or not.

        The Pippinprep is cool but, in practice, we really don't use it much. You can tinker around with double-sided AmPure to do most of what the Pippinprep does.

        --
        Phillip

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        • #5
          Has anyone tried this:

          This next-generation microchip electrophoresis system - will bring about revolutionary changes in life science laboratories.


          instead of the bioanalyzer or labchip?

          Runs are cheaper but does anyone know if it's any good?

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          • #6
            We also did not buy them, since we are already without arms or legs to sell. We are just starting and have managed to get results without them, besides, reagents for them will cost you probably an eye.

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            • #7
              We're using a bioanalyzer for analysis, and the invitrogen e-gel system for library fractionation (about $1 per sample) with very good success.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by pmiguel View Post
                I agree with SarahNGS, if you have the means, get the BioAnalyzer. If you don't, then you can, in principle, get by without one. Just go into "blind zen archer" mode until after an amplification. Then you can run an agarose or acrylamide gel and see whether you hit your target or not.

                The Pippinprep is cool but, in practice, we really don't use it much. You can tinker around with double-sided AmPure to do most of what the Pippinprep does.

                --
                Phillip
                Phillip, can you give an example of a double-sided Ampure protocol? Thanks,
                Hilary

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by HMorrison View Post
                  Phillip, can you give an example of a double-sided Ampure protocol? Thanks,
                  Hilary
                  quite a few threads on this exist if you search this forum.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by snetmcom View Post
                    quite a few threads on this exist if you search this forum.
                    I just did. Not finding a protocol, although I did find a posting where selection was for 220 (170-220). I am looking for the equivalent of a gel cut. Never mind. I will return to the search when I have more time to guess key words.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by HMorrison View Post
                      Phillip, can you give an example of a double-sided Ampure protocol? Thanks,
                      Hilary
                      You will almost certainly have to test this in your own hands and optimize the sizes for your results, but one example would be to first use a very low ratio of AMPure :: Sample, for example 0.5x-0.6x, which should bind everything ~300 and larger to the beads. Then the supernatant is saved, and additional AMPure is added to the supernatant to increase the AMPure::Sample ratio to something that will bind fragments larger than ~150, like 1.3x.

                      In the second step you have your desired fragments on the beads, having effectively performed a gel free size cut. Not as clean as a gel, but infinitely more automatable.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by ECO View Post
                        You will almost certainly have to test this in your own hands and optimize the sizes for your results, but one example would be to first use a very low ratio of AMPure :: Sample, for example 0.5x-0.6x, which should bind everything ~300 and larger to the beads. Then the supernatant is saved, and additional AMPure is added to the supernatant to increase the AMPure::Sample ratio to something that will bind fragments larger than ~150, like 1.3x.

                        In the second step you have your desired fragments on the beads, having effectively performed a gel free size cut. Not as clean as a gel, but infinitely more automatable.
                        Thanks so much, Eric. We'll experiment with MW ladder and try to add it to the repertoire. In fact, we'd like to eliminate very large fragments as well as the ones under 300. Standard Ampure clean up tends to overenrich the undesirable large products!

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                        • #13
                          Hi Hilary,

                          Some detail in:

                          Rodrigue S, Materna AC, Timberlake SC, Blackburn MC, Malmstrom RR, et al. (2010) Unlocking Short Read Sequencing for Metagenomics. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11840. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011840

                          and

                          Lennon N, Lintner R, Anderson S, Alvarez P, Barry A, Brockman W et al. (2010). A scalable, fully automated process for construction of sequence-ready barcoded libraries for 454. Genome Biol 11: R15.
                          doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-2-r15


                          But I guess ECO is right -- we just recently got around to trying it ourselves. At this juncture it looks pretty easy to get a not very tight size distribution.

                          Not sure what the effect of Ampure on bubble products is, though.

                          --
                          Phillip

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by HMorrison View Post
                            I just did. Not finding a protocol, although I did find a posting where selection was for 220 (170-220). I am looking for the equivalent of a gel cut. Never mind. I will return to the search when I have more time to guess key words.
                            Ampure will not be equivalent to a gel cut. It's quite broad for size selection, but it is easy to automate.

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                            • #15
                              I have also tested Invitrogen's E-Gel® SizeSelect™ 2% Agarose and got similar results to PippipPrep.

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