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What is solid-phase bridge amplification?
During Illumina sequencing there is a step called bridge amplification by which DNA is amplified by isothermal enzymes. What is this stage, and how does it work?
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What's the difference between shotgun sequencing and clone based sequencing?
What are the main differences between shotgun sequencing and clone based sequencing?
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Comparative cost of RNA-seq vs sequencing full length cDNAs
I am in the process of assembling and annotating the genome of a non-model organism, using almost exclusively short read (paired-end Illumina) data. Throughput is one obvious benefit of these data ...
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How to clone and sequence a gene transcript of unknown sequence?
How might I go about amplifying a gene transcript (mRNA) from animal tissue of which little is known about the genome? In some applications, I have used reverse transcriptase PCR to amplify all mRNA ...
