前兩期我們介紹了Sage系列產(chǎn)品在Small RNA、ChiP-seq、cffDNA和ctDNA測序中的應(yīng)用，本期我們將介紹Sage系列產(chǎn)品在RAD seq和甲基化測序中的應(yīng)用。

RAD-seq 相關(guān)應(yīng)用

RAD-seq技術(shù)，是廣泛用于遺傳多樣性測序技術(shù)的一種。利用限制性內(nèi)切酶消化以降低基因組的復(fù)雜度，對特定酶切片段進行NGS高通量測序，實現(xiàn)基因分型的技術(shù)。

RAD-seq不僅實驗操作簡單，性價比高，更為重要的是他并不依賴參考基因組的信息，一次測序即可獲得數(shù)以萬計的多態(tài)性遺傳標記，已廣泛應(yīng)用于生態(tài)學、遺傳學、基因組學等研究領(lǐng)域。

在ddRAD-seq實驗流程中，Pippin 系列全自動DNA片段回收儀，可以降低片段選擇過程對相同位點在文庫間代表性的影響，另外通過實驗初期的監(jiān)測，可以評估樣品的酶切片段均勻度，排除轉(zhuǎn)座子等高頻出現(xiàn)的片段。

相關(guān)文獻：

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甲基化測序（MeD-seq）應(yīng)用

甲基化測序是一類專門分析DNA分子中胞嘧啶（C）甲基化水平的測序分析技術(shù)。其主要原理是通過將DNA中非甲基化的胞嘧啶轉(zhuǎn)化為尿嘧啶（U），繼而進行測序的技術(shù)手段。由于正常情況下胞嘧啶的配對堿基是鳥嘌呤（G），而尿嘧啶的配對堿基是腺嘌呤（A）。這樣就可以在生成配對序列時產(chǎn)生不同的序列，進一步通過測序分析和參考鏈比較，以了解哪些部位發(fā)生了甲基化。

目前，減少代表性亞硫酸氫鹽測序（Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing ，RRBS）覆蓋了大部分的基因啟動子和CpG島，但是對CpG周圍和其他有生物學意義的基因間區(qū)域的覆蓋卻不足。因此有越來越多的研究人員開發(fā)了增強減少代表性亞硫酸氫鹽測序技術(shù)（Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing ，ERRBS）。ERRBS技術(shù)可以在在產(chǎn)生的數(shù)據(jù)中有覆蓋更多的CpG，并增加了所有待測基因組區(qū)域的覆蓋率，因此改善了RRBS在甲基化測序中的缺陷。其中在Garrett-Bakelman等人設(shè)計的ERRBS方法，通過利用Pippin Prep回收135-410bp的DNA片段，可以高效回收25ng以上的DNA并用于構(gòu)建DNA文庫，經(jīng)過驗證是一種可行的甲基化測序技術(shù)。

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