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. 2022:2421:217-229.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1944-5_15.

Single-Cell Sequencing for Everybody

Valentina Proserpio  1   2 , Carlotta Duval  3   4 , Vanessa Falvo  3   4 , Giacomo Donati  3   4 , Salvatore Oliviero  5   6
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Single-Cell Sequencing for Everybody

Valentina Proserpio et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2022.

Abstract

Over the past 7 years, single-cell sequencing has become very popular. For this reason, many laboratories of different biological disciplines that span from neurobiology to developmental biology from immunology to tumor biology have been approaching this technique. For someone new to this field that wants to investigate heterogeneity in what appears to be a single-cell population, the choice of the best protocol can be difficult, due to the high abundance of available protocols, instruments, and options. For this reason, here we describe the Smart-seq2 protocol for full-length mRNA sequencing of single cell. This protocol can be easily optimized in every molecular biology laboratory provided with standard laboratory equipment. The protocol is suitable for many different cell types, and the cost per cell is relatively small, allowing a good balance between costs and transcript coverage.

Keywords: Full length; Single cell; Smart-seq2; mRNA-seq.

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