Abstract
Over the past few years only, next-generation sequencing technologies became accessible and many applications were rapidly derived, such as the development of RNA-seq, a technique that uses deep sequencing to profile whole transcriptomes. RNA-seq has the power to discover new transcripts and splicing variants, single nucleotide variations, fusion genes, and mRNA levels-based expression profiles. Preparing RNA-seq libraries can be delicate and usually obligates buying expensive kits that require large amounts of stating materials. The method presented here is flexible and cost-effective. Using this method, we prepared high-quality strand-specific RNA-seq libraries from RNA extracted from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The libraries are compatible with Illumina®’s sequencers Genome Analyzer and Hi-Seq. The method can however be easily adapted to other platforms.
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The authors thank Courtney Brady (NuGEN®), and Barbara Walter, John Weger, Rebecca Sun, and Glenn Hicks (Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California Riverside) for their assistance in the library preparation and sequencing processes.
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Lu, X.M., Le Roch, K. (2021). Strand-Specific RNA-Seq Applied to Malaria Samples. In: Jin, H., Kaloshian, I. (eds) RNA Abundance Analysis . Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2170. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0743-5_2
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