Hi
I would recommend (currently) the
(a) 454 transcriptome to build reference and
(b) SOLEXA RNASeq to refine reference and count transcripts
route
The technology for transcriptome assembly with illumina SOLEXA is
still less-than-robust, but this will change as software such as ABySS
gets better at it, Velvet starts to cope with different levels of
depth across sequences and, most importantly) we start to be able to
get good 100-base reads from paired end RNASeq.
An alternative to RNASeq for counting is deepSAGE (NlaIII tags aka),
and is often good enough for non-model oragisms where the initial
questions are more coarse-grained than those asked of the human genome
or model nonvertebrates. deepSAGE also requires fewer reads per sample/
replicate (~1 million compared to ~5 million) and so one gets more
'bang for your buck' in sequencing. Mapping NlaIII tags to 454
transcriptomes works well as the cDNA template for 454 is usually
prepared using polyA and thus includes a good representation of 3'ends.
Mark
On 9 Dec 2009, at 17:49, Yannick Wurm wrote:
> Hello again,
>> have another question.
> We're thinking of doing some gene expression analyses for a species
> on which we have no sequence data and the closest sequenced relative
> is 100+ million years away.
>> I'm thinking it may be possible to do everything in one shot:
> 1. RNAseq (using Illumina) on our 2 conditions of interest
> 2. Assembly of the RNAseq data to get good gene models -> annotate
> 3. "classic" RNAseq analysis where to identify differential
> expression
>> The alternative would be to first perform some 454 of a normalized
> library to get a good overview of the transcriptome.
>> Any experience with this? Do you think it's feasible?
>> Kind regards,
> Yannick
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