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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2023

MAC-Seq: Coupling Low-Cost, High-Throughput RNA-Seq with Image-Based Phenotypic Screening in 2D and 3D Cell Models.

Xiang Mark Li, David Yoannidis, Susanne Ramm, Jennii Luu, Gisela Mir Arnau, Timothy Semple, Kaylene J Simpson

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiang Mark LiVictorian Centre for Functional Genomics, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia. kaylene.simpson@petermac.org.
David YoannidisMolecular Genomics Core, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Susanne RammVictorian Centre for Functional Genomics, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Jennii LuuVictorian Centre for Functional Genomics, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Gisela Mir ArnauSir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Timothy SempleSir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Kaylene J SimpsonVictorian Centre for Functional Genomics, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre · AUUniversity of Melbourne · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcriptomic profiling has fundamentally influenced our understanding of cancer pathophysiology and response to therapeutic intervention and has become a relatively routine approach. However, standard protocols are usually low-throughput, single-plex assays and costs are still quite prohibitive. With the evolving complexity of in vitro cell model systems, there is a need for resource-efficient high-throughput approaches that can support detailed time-course analytics, accommodate limited sample availability, and provide the capacity to correlate phenotype to genotype at scale. MAC-seq (multiplexed analysis of cells) is a low-cost, ultrahigh-throughput RNA-seq workflow in plate format to measure cell perturbations and is compatible with high-throughput imaging. Here we describe the steps to perform MAC-seq in 384-well format and apply it to 2D and 3D cell cultures. On average, our experimental conditions identified over ten thousand expressed genes per well when sequenced to a depth of one million reads. We discuss technical aspects, make suggestions on experimental design, and document critical operational procedures. Our protocol highlights the potential to couple MAC-seq with high-throughput screening applications including cell phenotyping using high-content cell imaging.

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Gene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysPhenotypeRNA-SeqSequence Analysis, RNA3D cell modelsHigh-content imagingHigh-throughput screeningMultiplexingRNA-seq

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PMID37355554
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