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  1. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    ...preprint title or a general description of the deposit. Select your desired distribution status: Hold...choose from one of the following descriptions for your plasmid: Encodes insert(s) A plasmid with one or...should describe how your plasmid is intended to be used. For instance, if your plasmid is designed to allow...Unpublished or pre-publication plasmids" and set a desired distribution status. You can submit "Published ...plasmids with the original publication where you described them. Search for your article as you would search...selected your publication or entered your deposit description, the next page will allow you to add plasmids... article. Note that if you entered a deposit description, this will become your article title.   ...
  2. Adenovirus Plasmids

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    ...strains for generating adenovirus. ID Strain Description PI 16398 BJ5183 Strain for recombination between... plasmids that have inserts. ID Plasmid Type Description PI 16400 pAdEasy-1 Adenoviral For recombining... be assembled in a one-tube reaction. ID Kit Description PI 1000000176 AdenoBuilder toolkit Plasmids contain...
  3. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...primer design Design primers for Goldengate cloning   Design primers for In-Fusion Cloning Design primers...traces, while the paid version provides more tools for plasmid mapping and design (Figure 1). Benchling: While...academic users. Serial Cloner: Free desktop-based software for plasmid design and mapping. ApE (A plasmid Editor...Primer design tools Many of the above-listed plasmid mapping tools have built-in primer design tools, ...stand-alone sites for general primer design, as well as primer design for different cloning applications...characteristics. NEB Data-optimized Assembly Design (DAD): This tool designs overhang sets for high complexity Golden...Primer design. Plasmid mapping. DNA sequence analysis. We all have our favorite tools for tackling these...
  4. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...ligated into Cas9 or dCas9-containing destination vectors. Destination vector options include humanized wt...cell that gets the plasmid contains all of the desired gRNAs. This increases the chance that all the edits...promoters. To use this plasmid, you simply order oligonucleotides for your chosen gRNA target sequences and ...ordered assembly of multiple components into a destination vector. The first step in CRISPR/Cas9 Golden ...Golden Gate multiplexing is to clone the oligonucleotides specifying each gRNA target sequence into distinct...together to allow for ordered assembly into a destination vector that expresses Cas9. This is illustrated...rectangles) are cloned into various plasmids using oligonucleotides. These plasmids contain Type IIS restriction...
  5. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...vectors in a Multisite Gateway reaction with a desired destination vector expressing a separate reporter gene... can't give all of them attention they righlty deserve, but, in this post, we'll provide a small sampling...-2xNLS-VP64 and dCas9(N)-FRB-NES). This system provides users greater temporal control over CRISPR/Cas9...cell events Three years ago, Brian Kuhlman’s lab designed photoswitchable dimers by fusing the SsrA peptide...the authors recently used computational protein design, phage display and high throughput binding assays...transcription of downstream genes. Nihongaki et al describe the targeted activation of endogenous genes and... a gene-specific forward primer containing the desired restriction site (the MCS has several options) ...
  6. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Plasmids

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    ... are used in conjunction with the plasmid that encodes the viral genome (typically called cis -plasmid...plasmid). Helper Plasmid ID Plasmid Serotype Description PI 112867 pAdDeltaF6 All Helper plasmid for AAV...Packaging Service at Addgene ID Plasmid Capsid Description PI 112862 pAAV2/1 AAV1 AAV packaging plasmid,...
  7. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...customized to direct assembly of DNA fragments. When designed correctly, the recognition sites do not appear... scheme is as follows: the gene of interest is designed with Type IIS sites (such as BsaI or BbsI), that...and do not appear in the final construct. The destination vector contains sites with complementary overhangs...ligation can be done in one 30-minute reaction. The destination vector and entry vector(s) are placed in a single...IIS enzyme and ligase. Although the original destination vector + insert may spontaneously religate, this... be re-digested. In contrast, formation of the desired ligation product is irreversible because this construct...a single reaction! These overhangs specify the desired order of fragments, and the loss of enzyme recognition...
  8. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ... reference?  The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed to have a perfect match...African descent have approximately 20% more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that map to guides in the...accounted for in the CRISPR guides they used, leading to mismatches between the guides and the lines’ genomes...modify the CRISpick algorithm to prevent guides from being designed that target regions with high genomic...coming through an unexpected source: the CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA,...x-axis) which SNPs map to thetargeting sequences of guides across 8 CRISPR libraries. Samples are divided ...are more common in individuals of African descent.Correcting the bias  While their thorough analysis uncovered...
  9. Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection

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    ...Mitochondria 87424 DSP-mEGFP AICSDP-9 mEGFP Desmoplakin Desmosomes 87425 ACTB-mEGFP AICSDP-15 mEGFP Beta-actin...human cell lines of their choice. For a full description of how to use these plasmids, check out Plasmids...
  10. 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk

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    ...suspense. Notice the simplicity of their slides and how the slides complement the spoken message. Learn from...speak to start creating slides or thinking about content. Create a Google.slides or Powerpoint file right...how these speakers talk without looking at their slides or notes. Listen to their stories and narratives...listeners to be thinking “What happens next?”  Describe how you pushed to a solution or overcame obstacles...term, but are worried that this might sound condescending, consider explaining the term on a slide but...talk will really take and to adjust content and slides to better suit the target time frame.   I suggest...peers than a less supportive audience? 7. Hone Your slides Use big images that are easy to see (and for heavens...
  11. Plasmids 101: Walkthrough of Addgene’s Snapgene-Powered Quality Control Process

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    ...experiments that can be partially designed using the Snapgene desktop software. If a plasmid contains a...sequencing results with reference sequences To design experiments for further plasmid verification Identifying... contents of the resulting FASTA file into the desktop version of Snapgene to visualize the sequence and...in Snapgene’s extensive database. Snapgene also provides easy visualization of open reading frames, which...any known sequences for the insert. The Snapgene desktop software allows us to quickly align multiple sequences...verification experiments: Primer and restriction digest design Some regions of plasmids are difficult to sequence...region with a high amount of guanine and cytosine nucleotides, we might need to send it for Sanger sequencing...
  12. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    ...experimental designs and we need to be transparent about the reasons we alter these designs if we do so...experimental design to a journal prior to performing the experiment (or set of experiments), the design would...from the event can be found below along with a description of the program beneath it. You can jump to the...the different time stamps in the description to watch any sections you’re particularly interested in, ...JoVe, and Bio-protocol all work to provide more descriptive and interactive protocols that make it much easier...and not just impact. Cause #3: Poor experimental design It’s easy to get excited about positive results...experiments to work, but part of good experimental design is recognizing that we’re biased and taking steps...
  13. Genetic Code Expansion

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    ...based upon four nucleotides, 64 codons, and 20 amino acids. Yet in the past two decades, biologists have...included. For any and all questions you have while designing, implementing, or troubleshooting GCE experiments...non-standard amino acid incorporation. ID Strain Description PI 48998 C321.ΔA all TAG sites changes to UAG...
  14. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ... massive amount of descriptive transcriptomics data. Custom CRISPR screens designed to target differentially...Institutet, in Sweden. It can be very time consuming to design 5 guide RNAs (gRNAs) targeting each of the 1000...). Green Listed is a new software tool used to design gRNAs for custom CRISPR screens targeting a (long...moment, 13 full genome SpCas9 knockout libraries designed by different academic labs, targeting mouse, human...drug targets  Another interesting approach is to design screens against known druggable targets, preferentially...library from Addgene, and then use Green Listed to design a smaller validation screen using selected gRNAs... could also be combined. For example, you could design a screen targeting all differentially expressed...
  15. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ...often use the Cre/Lox system described earlier. In this case, you design your targeting vector such that...replacing it or disrupting it with an piece of DNA designed in the lab. Specially constructed plasmids can...template with the endogenous gene. Here, we'll describe the techniques and the plasmids used to inactivate...inactivate specific genes in mammalian cells. Despite the popularity of CRISPR-based knockout/knock-in systems...locus with homologous sequence using a specially designed vector that contains sequence homology to the ... the process, we’ll walk through an experiment designed to knock out exon 2 of a given gene.   ... Figure 1: A knockout targeting vector designed to insert a resistance gene. The vector contains a neomycin...
  16. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...adapted "self-cleaving" 2A peptides into their muliticistronic vectors. These peptides, first discovered in ...plasmids) are designed to have one or more of the genes replaced.  Additionally, 2A peptides could be PCR-cloned...PDF that you can save on your desktop. The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists...incorporated into plasmids for research purposes are described below. IRES Elements Translation in eukaryotes...the specific genes cloned into the vector.3  2A Peptides To overcome some of the disadvantages of the IRES...self-cleaving" is not entirely accurate, as these peptides are thought to function by making the ribosome...Proline.  The table below lists the four common 2A peptides employed by scientists. 2A cleavage is universal...
  17. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ... friends on the Cambridge 2010 iGEM team that describes the basics of Gibson assembly as a parody of “...assembly The Gibson assembly technique was first described by Dr. Daniel Gibson and colleagues at the J. ... Both Snapgene and NEB have tools that help you design primers for PCR amplification of fragments to incorporate...demonstration of how to use Snapgene’s program to design primers for Gibson Assembly. For a simple example...without scars as depicted below. First, you need to design primers to amplify the two fragments while also...the process works best with fragments over 200 nucleotides. This may be because the exonuclease could chew... through an entire fragment shorter than 200 nucleotides before the annealing and polymerization steps...
  18. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    ...knock-in. Another good design tool can be found at Desktop Genetics .For ssODN design, remember to incorporate... systems, you will have to design your crRNAs using other web-based design tools (for C-terminus tagging... not work in pull-down assays: Epitope tagging provides a solution Proteins - the workhorses of the cell...to mention frustrating. One elegant solution to sidestep the antibody problem is to tag the protein of ...sequences at the intended target site. With the widespread adoption of CRISPR/Cas9 technology and rapid ...bioinformatics tool for guide RNA and donor DNA design, and implemented our optimised protocols into a...genome browser: https://www.ensembl.org/index.html Design crRNA/ssODN: Using Ensembl Transcript ID(s) as ...
  19. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    ...rules of thumb for designing your overhang sets. But are those rules the best way to design GGA overhang sets...overhangs with the same three nucleotides in a row; (4) no more than two nucleotides in the same position; (...data-optimized assembly design (DAD) to build out three tools to help researchers design high-fidelity Golden...the traditional rules of thumb for overhang set design allowed for high-fidelity assembly for sets of ... overhangs that violate some of the traditional design rules) for successful high-complexity Golden Gate...with a high potential for mismatches, so you can redesign individual pieces as needed to improve fidelity... a stochastic search algorithm rather than pre-designed sets, so identical searches can return multiple...
  20. Plasmids 101: Colony PCR

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    ...step to colony PCR is designing primers. There are 3 strategies for primer design: 1) insert-specific primers... second option is to design backbone-specific primers. These primers are designed to anneal to sites that...less money. The key steps to colony PCR are: 1) design primers to detect the presence of your insert; ...things to consider when performing colony PCR.   Designing colony PCR primers The first and perhaps most ...-specific primers: Insert-specific primers are designed to anneal to an insert-specific sequence. This...backbone but that contain different inserts. When you design primers to anneal outside the cloning site, it ...about insert orientation, then you might consider designing orientation-specific primers. Blunt end cloning...
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