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ArticleGenome biology2019

BRB-seq: ultra-affordable high-throughput transcriptomics enabled by bulk RNA barcoding and sequencing.

Daniel Alpern, Vincent Gardeux, Julie Russeil, Bastien Mangeat, Antonio C A Meireles-Filho, Romane Breysse, David Hacker, Bart Deplancke

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In one paragraph

Article in Genome biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06842316 (In Vitro Effects of Phytocannabinoids on Immune Response and Autophagy During Chronic Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases), which is not on this map. Cited by 139 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06842316 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

In Vitro Effects of Phytocannabinoids on Immune Response and Autophagy During Chronic Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases

TypeobservationalSponsorCentre Hospitalier Régional d'OrléansRan2025 to 2027Enrolled100ConditionsInflammatory Disorder of Immune System, Spondylitis, Ankylosing, Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Arthritis, PsoriaticArms1 blood sample, 40 mL (collection during a blood test, part of the standard of care for this disease)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

139 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Daniel AlpernInstitute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Vincent GardeuxInstitute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Julie RusseilInstitute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bastien MangeatGene Expression Core Facility, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Antonio C A Meireles-FilhoInstitute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Romane BreysseInstitute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
David HackerProtein Expression Core Facility, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Bart DeplanckeInstitute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. bart.deplancke@epfl.ch.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its widespread use, RNA-seq is still too laborious and expensive to replace RT-qPCR as the default gene expression analysis method. We present a novel approach, BRB-seq, which uses early multiplexing to produce 3' cDNA libraries for dozens of samples, requiring just 2 hours of hands-on time. BRB-seq has a comparable performance to the standard TruSeq approach while showing greater tolerance for lower RNA quality and being up to 25 times cheaper. We anticipate that BRB-seq will transform basic laboratory practice given its capacity to generate genome-wide transcriptomic data at a similar cost as profiling four genes using RT-qPCR.

Indexed as

Gene LibrarySequence Analysis, RNAGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingBarcodingGene expressionqPCRRNA-seqTranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID30999927
PMCPMC6474054

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