BRB-seq: ultra-affordable high-throughput transcriptomics enabled by bulk RNA barcoding and sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Despite its widespread use, RNA-seq is still too laborious and expensive to replace RT-qPCR as the default gene expression analysis method. We present a novel approach, BRB-seq, which uses early multiplexing to produce 3' cDNA libraries for dozens of samples, requiring just 2 hours of hands-on time. BRB-seq has a comparable performance to the standard TruSeq approach while showing greater tolerance for lower RNA quality and being up to 25 times cheaper. We anticipate that BRB-seq will transform basic laboratory practice given its capacity to generate genome-wide transcriptomic data at a similar cost as profiling four genes using RT-qPCR.

SUBMITTER: Alpern D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6474054 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature