RNA editing is a post-transcriptional process occurring in a wide range of organisms. In human brain, the A-to-I RNA editing, in which individual adenosine (A) bases in pre-mRNA are modified to yield inosine (I), is the most frequent event. Modulating gene expression, RNA editing is essential for cellular homeostasis. Indeed, its deregulation has been linked to several neurological and neurodeg...

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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is driving rapid advancement in biological understanding and RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has become an indispensable tool for biology and medicine. There is a growing need for access to these technologies although preparation of NGS libraries remains a bottleneck to wider adoption. Here we report a novel method for the production of strand specific RNA-seq librarie...

Recent advances in DNA-sequencing technology have made it possible to obtain large datasets of small RNA sequences. Here we demonstrate that not all non-perfectly matched small RNA sequences are simple technological sequencing errors, but many hold valuable biological information. Analysis of three small RNA datasets originating from Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana small RNA-sequencing pr...

Abstract Apple stem grooving virus, the causal agent of citrus tatterleaf disease, was detected for first time in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Samples were collected from trees across southern provinces testing Australia. RNA extracted and tested using conventional real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reactions with virus 1 59 samples tested. Viral identity confirmed by Sanger ...

Background TCR and BCR repertoire profiling is a promising technique that can provide clinically useful window into the complex interactions between tumor cells infiltrating lymphocytes. Despite recent advances in sequencing methods, characterization of tumor-infiltrating T-cell repertoires has been limited to small sample sizes due technical material constraints. In this study, we constructed ...

RNA sequencing has become an important method to perform hypothesis-free characterization of global gene expression. One of the limitations of RNA sequencing is that most sequence reads represent highly expressed transcripts, whereas low level transcripts are challenging to detect. To combine the benefits of traditional expression arrays with the advantages of RNA sequencing, we have used whole...

There are several protocols and kits for the extraction of circulating RNAs from plasma with a following quantification of specific genes via RT-qPCR. Due to the marginal amount of cell-free RNA in plasma samples, the total RNA yield is insufficient to perform Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), the state-of-the-art technology in massive parallel sequencing that enables a comprehensive characteri...