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

Daniel Alpern; Vincent Gardeux; Julie Russeil; Bastien Mangeat; Antonio C.A. Meireles-Filho; Romane Breysse; David Hacker; Bart Deplancke

doi:10.1186/s13059-019-1671-x

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

Daniel Alpern, Vincent Gardeux, Julie Russeil, Bastien Mangeat, Antonio C.A. Meireles-Filho, Romane Breysse, David Hacker, Bart Deplancke

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	71
Journal	Genome biology
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1671-x
State	Published - Apr 19 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Barcoding
Gene expression
qPCR
RNA-seq
Transcriptomics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Cell Biology

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Alpern, D., Gardeux, V., Russeil, J., Mangeat, B., Meireles-Filho, A. C. A., Breysse, R., Hacker, D., & Deplancke, B. (2019). BRB-seq: Ultra-affordable high-throughput transcriptomics enabled by bulk RNA barcoding and sequencing. Genome biology, 20(1), [71]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1671-x

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