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I want to do chip-seq for a transcription factor in bacteria for Illumina. I' need help for sample preparation for bacteria since all I find is eukaryotes. Brand new with the technique, sorry!
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I haven't done ChIP in bacteria but once you have the ChIP material I would think making the libraries would be the same. I'm waiting to get back sequencing data from my first ChIP seq libraries. If all looks good then I will be able to give some advice. You could contact Illumina to see if they have any protocols for ChIP in prokayotes. -
A very interesting study shows some of the pitfalls of ChIP applications and offers some advances to published protocols.
The paper is dedicated to ChIP on Chip but most of it also applies to Chip-Seq, too.
If you're new to the tech, I would recommend reading this paper.
Here's the ref: Waldminghaus & Skarstad 2010, BMC Genomics, 11:414Comment
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I’m not a sequencing expert. I’m a purification scientist who uses NGS to evaluate workflows my group develops. With this perspective, we think about the sample first and the NGS workflow second. The sequencer is an exceptionally honest reporter, but it can only report on what you give it, so whether you get clean, interpretable data from an NGS workflow is largely determined before you begin.
Here are nine questions we think about, in roughly the order they matter, before...06-18-2026, 07:11 AM -
Data variability is still an issue in sequencing technologies despite the advances in reproducibility and accuracy of these platforms. But the problem does not originate in the sequencing itself, but in the previous steps, before the sample reaches the sequencer.
The first step is collection, followed by preservation and sample preparation for analysis. Most scientists overlook those steps, but not being careful might just be skewing the experiment’s results.
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