2. What is Sequencing?
• Sequencing is determining the order in
which nucleotides are arranged in DNA.
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3. What is NGS?
• Tool for discovering, profiling, and quantifying
sequences across a transcriptome
• Sequences RNA and DNA quicker and more
cheaply that the traditional Sanger deoxy-chain-
termination method
• Catch-all term to describe a number of different
modern RNA and DNA sequencing technologies
• Illumina (Solexa) sequencing
• Roche 454 sequencing
• Ion Torrent: Proton / PGM sequencing
• Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT) sequencing
4. Terminology
• DNA Sequencing - process of determining the
precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule
• Genome - complete set of genes or genetic material
present in a cell or organism
• RNA Sequencing – sequencing of cDNA using whole
transcriptome shotgun method
• Transcriptome – collection of all RNA transcripts
produced in a cell or population of cells
• Read – a sequencing of bases that have been “read”
by a sequencing machine
5. Terminology Cont.
• Amplification - Using polymerase chain reaction
(Polymerase Chain Reaction/PCR) to generate
thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA
sequence
• Shotgun Sequencing - An approach used to decode
a genome by shredding ("shotgunning") it into
smaller fragments of DNA which can then be
individually sequenced.
• de novo Sequencing – sequencing of a genome that
has not been sequenced before or does not have a
reference
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This video will be covering the basics on what Next Generation Sequencing is and some terminology needed in order to understand the process.
Image found at https://www.my46.org/intro/how-are-dna-changes-found.
Read Slide
RNA can also be sequenced by taking RNA and making cDNA with reverse transcriptase. The cDNA is then sequenced the same as the DNA from the nucleus of a cell.
Next Generation Sequencing is a…read slide. The capillary electrophoresis (CE)-based Sanger method is the first generation sequencing, which is very time and labor extensive. Later videos will go into some detail on the various types of sequencing available including the Sanger, and all the next generation sequencing methods.
Some terminology needed to understand the process of sequencing, some of which are the following. read slide.
+ length, speed, and quality of reads depends on the sequencing method used
+ Shotguen sequencing method designed for analysis of DNA sequences longer than 1000 base pairs, up to and including entire chromosomes. This method requires the target DNA to be broken into random fragments. After sequencing individual fragments, the sequences can be reassembled on the basis of their overlapping regions
This slide demonstrates what the term alignment refers to, which is the alignment of the various fragments DNA or RNA sequences produced from the shotgun method, that need to be put together to find the consensus sequence in which they originally made up.
The reference sequence is a digital nucleic acid sequence database, assembled by scientists as a representative example of a species' set of genes. Bioinformatics tools are then used to align the various reads usually come with the sequencing machine. Various bioinformatics tools are needed to further analyze the data.
This is the Work Cited for this video.
This is the Work Cited for this video.
In the next video we will be covering Clinical Applications of the Next Generation Sequencing.