Simple, robust methods for high-throughput nanoliter-scale DNA sequencing

Table 1.

Plasmid, BAC, and fosmid DNA libraries sequenced in a 400-nL reaction containing 31.25 nL of Big Dye terminators (V3.1, Applied Biosystems) as compared to standard 4000-nL reactions containing 540 nL of Big Dye terminators












31.25 nL Big Dye

540 nL Big Dye
Sequence type
Organism
Library name
Vector
Vector copy number
Mean insert size (kbp)
GC content
DNA conc. (mean ± SD) (ng/μL)
Primer
Number of reads
Length (PHRED20 bp, mean ± SD)
Mean signal strength
Length (PHRED20 bp, mean ± SD)
Mean signal strength
5′ EST H. sapiens 10790a pOTB7 High 1.9 N/A 70.31 ± 0.89 -21M13F 2304 881 ± 72 1072 879 ± 100 1053
5′ EST M. musculus LL005, LL012, LL014, LL015, LL016, LL017 pDNRLIB High 2.3 51% 47.87 ± 2.19 -21M13F, T7 2230 738 ± 189 342 753 ± 200 1987
R. norvegicus pYX-Asc
H. sapiens pOTB7
X. tropicalis pCMV-SPORT6
SAGE H. sapiens (prostate cancer) S1881 pZero-1 High 0.834 47% 30.42 ± 0.82 T7 2281 764 ± 157 381 786 ± 156 1169
WGS Cryptococcus neoformans CN23E pBR194cE Medium 10 47% 15.17 ± 0.19 -21M13F 2304 715 ± 171 104 825 ± 142 593
Transposonb Xenopus laevis TX060, TX067 pCMV-SPORT6 High 3.4c 45% 72.38 ± 2.63 SeqA2 1152 740 ± 170 333 774 ± 242 3190
Fosmid end Chlamydia trachomatis CA000, CD000, CE000, CL000 pEpiFos5 Low 30 42% 40.52 ± 0.60 pEpiFos5 Forward 1824 621 ± 201 255 N/A N/A
BAC end
Gasterosteus aculeatus
GA000
pTarBAC2.1
Low
210
43%
50.76 ± 0.87
T7
568
646.97 ± 189
199
N/A
N/A
  • a Library 10790 is comprised of multiple copies of an identical clone

  • b Transposons carrying unique priming sites are randomly inserted by recombination into pooled sets of plasmid clones (Butterfield et al. 2002)

  • c Includes 2.3 kb of insert plus 1.1 kb transposon

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