Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene
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...some plasmids will not result in one complete, circular assembly. Most of the time, these plasmids are ...Arnold.
Introducing NGS in 2017 for all incoming plasmids was a big change for Addgene - we had used Sanger...in-house sequencing! In addition to sequencing plasmids, we have also started using NGS to check the quality...about one day, even for six plates (576 individual plasmids)! These libraries are then QC’d, pooled, and prepared...normalize each to fall within a 10 fold range. Plasmids that don't meet the lower bound of this range ... performing quality control of newly deposited plasmids is to align the NGS result to a reference sequence...Genbank files that are useful for more complicated plasmids, like those that contain synthesized regions that...