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Purpose
The Center for Transcriptional Research in Infection and Inflammation is now offering Illumina Next Generation sequencing services to support NGS based research studies of gene expression as well as single-cell RNAseq to the Tulane University research community.
The Sequencing Core has an interactive staff, dedicated to the production and delivery of high-quality sequence data.
QC Instrumentation
Quantification: Invitrogen Qubit
Qualification: Agilent TapeStation 4150
10X Chromium Single Cell
Complete workflow from cell suspension through sequencing-ready cDNA library.
Illumina NextSeq 2000
Bioinformatic Resources
Cypress is Tulane's newest HPC cluster, offered by Technology Services for use by the Tulane research Community. It is a 124-node cluster, with each node providing dual 10-core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPUs, 64 GB of RAM, and dual Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors. Nodes are interconnected on a 40 Gigabit Ethernet network using a single Dell Z9500 Ethernet Fabric Switch.
Cell Ranger V3.0 by 10x Genomics is run on cypress. Cell Ranger is a set of analysis pipelines that process Chromium single-cell RNA-seq output to align reads, generate feature-barcode matrices and perform clustering and gene expression analysis.” Cell Ranger data can be viewed interactively with the 10x Loupe Browser. Subsequent analysis is done in R using Seurat and Monocle packages.
Seurat is an R package designed for QC, analysis, and exploration of single-cell RNA-seq data. Seurat aims to enable users to identify and interpret sources of heterogeneity from single-cell transcriptomic measurements, and to integrate diverse types of single-cell data.
Monocle provides tools for analyzing single-cell expression experiments. Monocle introduced the strategy of ordering single cells in pseudotime, placing them along a trajectory corresponding to a biological process such as cell differentiation by taking advantage of individual cell's asynchronous progression of those processes.
The Sequencing Core is located on the 3rd floor of J. Bennett Johnston Building, Room 339 in the Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation.
The core is currently accepting samples, for more information reach out to Jay Kolls or Kejing Song.
CONTACT
Jay K. Kolls, MD
Center for Translational Research
in Infection and Inflammation
Phone: 504-988-0456
Email: jkolls1@tulane.edu
For more information:
Administrative/Financial: Candice Fisher cfisher9@tulane.edu
Single Cell (10X): Kejing Song ksong1@tulane.edu
Bulk RNA Seq: Haiyan Miller hdeng@tulane.edu
Bioinformatics: Jay Kolls jkolls1@tulane.edu