古DNA单链测序文库的建立与检测北大核心CSCD

2005年问世的第二代测序技术在古DNA领域的应用,突破了第一代测序技术在绝灭或死亡生物全基因组获取手段上的局限。借助古基因组信息,研究者能够从更为系统的实时分子证据角度,解读诸如人类起源、大型绝灭哺乳动物迁移演化、动植物家养驯化以及早期人类社会生活模式等古生物学、遗传学与演化生物学问题。引入第二代测序技术之后,传统的古DNA研究方法及流程得以改变,剔除了原有的实验流程中耗时的分子克隆步骤,引入了与第二代测序技术紧密相关的古DNA单链测序文库构建环节。古DNA单链测序文库的构建,是将古DNA双链模板变性成单链后,通过向单链古DNA两端添加人工DNA片段,将古DNA分子转变成能被测序仪识别的文库分子。针对古DNA分子微量、高度片段化以及普遍存在碱基损伤的特点,古DNA单链测序文库,能够高效获取古DNA材料中的遗传信息。本文系统介绍古DNA单链测序文库建立流程,以及对文库质量进行检测的方法,为研究者运用第二代测序技术测定绝灭或死亡生物全基因组提供方法借鉴。     

第三代测序技术的研究进展与临床应用

Sanger测序法，又称第一代测序技术，作为测序金标准推动了人类基因组“工作框架图”的绘制，但通量低、成本高的缺点限制了其进一步大规模应用。第二代测序技术，又称下一代测序技术，因其通量高、成本低等优点使得基因测序在基础研究与临床诊疗中得到广泛应用，但短读长一直是其不可回避的技术短板。第三代测序技术的出现，因其具有长读长优势，为基因序列上复杂重复区域解析与高质量基因组组装提供了新的技术手段。近年来，第三代测序技术进一步发展与完善，同时在肿瘤、免疫、生殖等相关领域逐步体现出临床应用价值。本文将综述第三代测序技术的研究进展与临床应用。     

第三代测序技术及其应用

第二代测序技术发展到一定阶段以后其缺陷逐渐显现,而第三代测序技术的出现在一定程度上弥补了第二代测序技术在应用方面的缺点.就目前正在发展的5种第三代高通量测序技术的原理进行了阐述,并比较了这几种测序技术的优缺点,最后对三代测序技术在基因组测序,甲基化研究,RNA测序以及医学方面的应用作了简单介绍.     

DNA测序技术的发展历史与最新进展

DNA测序技术是现代分子生物学研究中最常用的技术。从1977年第一代测序技术的出现,经过30多年的发展,DNA测序技术取得重大进展,以高通量为特点的第二代测序技术逐步成熟并商业化,以单分子测序为特点的第三代测序技术也已经出现。介绍每一代测序技术的特点,并重点介绍了第二代测序技术及其应用。展望新的测序技术对于未来生物学研究及人们自身健康与人类疾病等方面研究的影响。     

基因芯片与高通量DNA测序技术前景分析

基因芯片与第二代DNA测序是两种重要的高通量基因组学研究技术,对于揭示基因组的结构与功能已经并正在发挥重要的推动作用．基因芯片技术建立了10多年,技术日渐成熟,在功能基因组、系统生物学、药物基因组的研究中已经得到了广泛的应用．2003年,454公司首先建立了高通量的第二代测序技术,其他公司相继推出了Solexa和Solid测序技术．虽然第二代测序技术建立的时间不长,但发展非常快,已经应用于基因组,包括测序和表观基因组学以及功能基因组学研究的许多方面．本文简要综述了基因芯片和第二代测序技术及其应用进展,并分析了这两种高通量基因组学技术的前景．     

二代测序技术在烟草中的应用进展

二代测序技术由于通量高、读长适中、错误率较低及成本低等优点而备受广大科研人员的青睐。本文从7种烟草属植物的基因组测序、宏基因组测序、转录组测序及烟草病毒的检测与鉴定等4个方面对二代测序技术在烟草中的应用进展进行了详细的综述,并在此基础上对二代测序技术及三代测序技术在烟草行业中的应用前景进行了展望,以期为相关领域研究者提供新的思路。     

DNA测序技术比较

自从1953年,J.D.Watson和F.H.C.Crick发现DNA的双螺旋模型之后,DNA测序技术随着科学的进步得到了迅猛发展.1977年Sanger[1]发明DNA双脱氧末端终止测序技术,Maxam与Gilbert[2]发明利用化学降解法进行测序的技术,2种测序技术被誉为DNA测序技术的始祖.随后,在第1代DNA测序技术的基础上,相继出现了第2代测序技术、基因芯片技术以及第3代测序技术.总结并展望了每一代测序技术及基因芯片技术的诞生、原理及应用前景,为利用测序技术研究基因表达提供理论基础和实验依据.     

采用诱导环化酶制备Illumina Mate-paired DNA文库

新一代测序技术(NGS)的文库制备方法在基因组的拼装中起着重要作用。但是NGS技术制备的普通DNA文库片段只有500 bp左右,难以满足复杂基因组的从头(de novo)拼装要求。三代测序技术的读长可以达到20 kb,但是其高错误率及测序成本过高使得其又不易推广。因此二代测序的Mate-paired文库制备技术一直在基因组的de novo拼装中扮演着非常重要的角色。目前主流的NGS平台Illumina制备的Mate-paired文库的片段范围只有2~5 kb,为了得到更长的可用于Illumina平台测序的Mate-paired文库,本研究首次整合并优化了Illumina和Roche/454两种测序平台的Mate-paired文库制备技术,采用诱导环化酶来提高基因组长片段DNA的环化效率,成功建立了20 kb Mate-paired文库制备技术,并已将该技术应用于人类基因组20 kb Mate-paired文库制备。该技术为Illumina平台制备长片段Mate-paired库提供了方法指导。     

古DNA单链测序文库的建立与检测

2005年问世的第二代测序技术在古DNA领域的应用,突破了第一代测序技术在绝灭或死亡生物全基因组获取手段上的局限。借助古基因组信息,研究者能够从更为系统的实时分子证据角度,解读诸如人类起源、大型绝灭哺乳动物迁移演化、动植物家养驯化以及早期人类社会生活模式等古生物学、遗传学与演化生物学问题。引入第二代测序技术之后,传统的古DNA研究方法及流程得以改变,剔除了原有的实验流程中耗时的分子克隆步骤,引入了与第二代测序技术紧密相关的古DNA单链测序文库构建环节。古DNA单链测序文库的构建,是将古DNA双链模板变性成单链后,通过向单链古DNA两端添加人工DNA片段,将古DNA分子转变成能被测序仪识别的文库分子。针对古DNA分子微量、高度片段化以及普遍存在碱基损伤的特点,古DNA单链测序文库,能够高效获取古DNA材料中的遗传信息。本文系统介绍古DNA单链测序文库建立流程,以及对文库质量进行检测的方法,为研究者运用第二代测序技术测定绝灭或死亡生物全基因组提供方法借鉴。     

高通量测序技术及其应用

高通量测序技术是DNA测序发展历程的一个里程碑,它为现代生命科学研究提供了前所未有的机遇。详细介绍了以454、Solexa和SOLiD为代表的第二代高通量测序技术,以HeliScope TIRM和Pacific Biosciences SMRT为代表的单分子测序技术,以及最近Life Science公司推出的Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM)测序技术等高通量测序技术的最新进展。在此基础上,阐述了高通量测序技术在基因组测序、转录组测序、基因表达调控、转录因子结合位点的检测以及甲基化等研究领域的应用。最后,讨论了高通量测序技术在成本和后续数据分析等方面存在的问题及其未来的发展前景。     

On the causes,consequences, and avoidance of PCR duplicates: Towards a theory of library complexity

Library preparation protocols for most sequencing technologies involve PCR amplification of the template DNA, which open the possibility that a given template DNA molecule is sequenced multiple times. Reads arising from this phenomenon, known as PCR duplicates, inflate the cost of sequencing and can jeopardize the reliability of affected experiments. Despite the pervasiveness of this artefact, our understanding of its causes and of its impact on downstream statistical analyses remains essentially empirical. Here, we develop a general quantitative model of amplification distortions in sequencing data sets, which we leverage to investigate the factors controlling the occurrence of PCR duplicates. We show that the PCR duplicate rate is determined primarily by the ratio between library complexity and sequencing depth, and that amplification noise (including in its dependence on the number of PCR cycles) only plays a secondary role for this artefact. We confirm our predictions using new and published RAD-seq libraries and provide a method to estimate library complexity and amplification noise in any data set containing PCR duplicates. We discuss how amplification-related artefacts impact downstream analyses, and in particular genotyping accuracy. The proposed framework unites the numerous observations made on PCR duplicates and will be useful to experimenters of all sequencing technologies where DNA availability is a concern.     

基于第二代测序技术的基因资源挖掘

转录组研究一直是生命科学研究的一个重要方向,在第二代测序技术问世以前,已经产生了一些行之有效的转录组研究方法,但这些方法存在一定的局限性。第二代测序技术的出现不仅使转录组研究很快进入了高速发展期,同时也为遗传资源的挖掘提供了一套全新的技术平台。本文简要介绍了第二代测序技术的化学原理和特性,重点阐述了利用第二代测序技术进行转录组测序,从而在此基础上挖掘遗传资源的研究。     

Genome Wide Sampling Sequencing for SNP Genotyping: Methods,Challenges and Future Development

Genetic polymorphisms, particularly single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), have been widely used to advance quantitative, functional and evolutionary genomics. Ideally, all genetic variants among individuals should be discovered when next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and platforms are used for whole genome sequencing or resequencing. In order to improve the cost-effectiveness of the process, however, the research community has mainly focused on developing genome-wide sampling sequencing (GWSS) methods, a collection of reduced genome complexity sequencing, reduced genome representation sequencing and selective genome target sequencing. Here we review the major steps involved in library preparation, the types of adapters used for ligation and the primers designed for amplification of ligated products for sequencing. Unfortunately, currently available GWSS methods have their drawbacks, such as inconsistency in the number of reads per sample library, the number of sites/targets per individual, and the number of reads per site/target, all of which result in missing data. Suggestions are proposed here to improve library construction, genotype calling accuracy, genome-wide marker density and read mapping rate. In brief, optimized GWSS library preparation should generate a unique set of target sites with dense distribution along chromosomes and even coverage per site across all individuals.     

Combinatorial pooled sequencing: experiment design and decoding

Owing to rapid advances in the next-generation sequencing technology, the cost of DNA sequencing has been reduced by over several orders of magnitude. However, genomic sequencing of individuals at the population scale is still restricted to a few model species due to the huge challenge of constructing libraries for thousands of samples. Meanwhile, pooled sequencing provides a cost-effective alternative to sequencing individuals separately, which could vastly reduce the time and cost for DNA library preparation. Technological improvements, together with the broad range of biological research questions that require large sample sizes, mean that pooled sequencing will continue to complement the sequencing of individual genomes and become increasingly important in the foreseeable future. However, simply mixing samples together for sequencing makes it impossible to identify reads that belongs to each sample. Barcoding technology could help to solve this problem, nonetheless, currently, barcoding every sample is costly especially for large-scale samples. An alternative to barcoding is combinatorial pooled sequencing which employs pooling pattern rather than short DNA barcodes to encode each sample. In combinatorial pooled sequencing, samples are mixed into few pools according to a carefully designed pooling strategy which allows the sequencing data to be decoded to identify the reads that belongs to the sample that are unique or rare in the population. In this review, we mainly survey the experiment design and decoding procedure for the combinatorial pooled sequencing applied in rare variant and rare haplotype carriers screening, complex genome assembling and single individual haplotyping.     

Comparison of large-insert,small-insert and pyrosequencing libraries for metagenomic analysis

The development of DNA sequencing methods for characterizing microbial communities has evolved rapidly over the past decades. To evaluate more traditional, as well as newer methodologies for DNA library preparation and sequencing, we compared fosmid, short-insert shotgun and 454 pyrosequencing libraries prepared from the same metagenomic DNA samples. GC content was elevated in all fosmid libraries, compared with shotgun and 454 libraries. Taxonomic composition of the different libraries suggested that this was caused by a relative underrepresentation of dominant taxonomic groups with low GC content, notably Prochlorales and the SAR11 cluster, in fosmid libraries. While these abundant taxa had a large impact on library representation, we also observed a positive correlation between taxon GC content and fosmid library representation in other low-GC taxa, suggesting a general trend. Analysis of gene category representation in different libraries indicated that the functional composition of a library was largely a reflection of its taxonomic composition, and no additional systematic biases against particular functional categories were detected at the level of sequencing depth in our samples. Another important but less predictable factor influencing the apparent taxonomic and functional library composition was the read length afforded by the different sequencing technologies. Our comparisons and analyses provide a detailed perspective on the influence of library type on the recovery of microbial taxa in metagenomic libraries and underscore the different uses and utilities of more traditional, as well as contemporary ‘next-generation'' DNA library construction and sequencing technologies for exploring the genomics of the natural microbial world.     

基于三代测序技术的微生物组学研究进展

微生物在人类生活中无处不在, 过去人们对微生物的认识仅停留在单菌培养和定性研究上, 而测序技术的发展极大地促进了微生物组学的研究。越来越多的证据表明: 人体共生微生物、特别是肠道微生物与人类健康息息相关。 二代测序技术凭借其高通量、高准确率和低成本的特点, 成为微生物组学研究中的主流测序技术。但是随着研究的深入, 二代测序技术的短读长(< 450 bp)增加了后续数据分析和基因组拼接难度, 也限制了该技术在未来研究中的应用。在此背景下, 第三代测序技术应运而生。第三代测序技术又称单分子测序, 能够直接对单个DNA分子进行实时测序, 而不需要经过PCR扩增。第三代测序技术的平均读长在2-10 kb左右, 最高可以达到2.2 Mb, 实现了长序列的高通量测序。凭借其超长的测序读长、无GC偏好性等优势, 三代测序技术为微生物基因组全长测序, 组装完整可靠的基因组提供了新的方法。本文在描述三代测序的技术特点和原理的基础上, 重点介绍了三代测序技术在微生物16S/18S rRNA基因测序、单菌的基因组组装以及宏基因组中的研究应用和进展。     

Next-generation sequencing technology:A technology review and future perspective

As one of the most powerful tools in biomedical research,DNA sequencing not only has been improving its productivity at an exponential growth rate but has also been evolving into a new layout of technological territories toward engineering and physical disciplines over the past three decades.In this technical review,we look into technical characteristics of the next-generation sequencers and provide insights into their future development and applications.We envisage that some of the emerging platforms are c...     

PacBio-LITS: a large-insert targeted sequencing method for characterization of human disease-associated chromosomal structural variations

Background

Generation of long (>5 Kb) DNA sequencing reads provides an approach for interrogation of complex regions in the human genome. Currently, large-insert whole genome sequencing (WGS) technologies from Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) enable analysis of chromosomal structural variations (SVs), but the cost to achieve the required sequence coverage across the entire human genome is high.

Results

We developed a method (termed PacBio-LITS) that combines oligonucleotide-based DNA target-capture enrichment technologies with PacBio large-insert library preparation to facilitate SV studies at specific chromosomal regions. PacBio-LITS provides deep sequence coverage at the specified sites at substantially reduced cost compared with PacBio WGS. The efficacy of PacBio-LITS is illustrated by delineating the breakpoint junctions of low copy repeat (LCR)-associated complex structural rearrangements on chr17p11.2 in patients diagnosed with Potocki–Lupski syndrome (PTLS; MIM#610883). We successfully identified previously determined breakpoint junctions in three PTLS cases, and also were able to discover novel junctions in repetitive sequences, including LCR-mediated breakpoints. The new information has enabled us to propose mechanisms for formation of these structural variants.

Conclusions

The new method leverages the cost efficiency of targeted capture-sequencing as well as the mappability and scaffolding capabilities of long sequencing reads generated by the PacBio platform. It is therefore suitable for studying complex SVs, especially those involving LCRs, inversions, and the generation of chimeric Alu elements at the breakpoints. Other genomic research applications, such as haplotype phasing and small insertion and deletion validation could also benefit from this technology.

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