Limitations and challenges of genetic barcode quantification
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Limitations and challenges of genetic barcode quantification. / Thielecke, Lars; Aranyossy, Tim; Dahl, Andreas; Tiwari, Rajiv; Roeder, Ingo; Geiger, Hartmut; Fehse, Boris; Glauche, Ingmar; Cornils, Kerstin.
in: SCI REP-UK, Jahrgang 7, 03.03.2017, S. 43249.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Limitations and challenges of genetic barcode quantification
AU - Thielecke, Lars
AU - Aranyossy, Tim
AU - Dahl, Andreas
AU - Tiwari, Rajiv
AU - Roeder, Ingo
AU - Geiger, Hartmut
AU - Fehse, Boris
AU - Glauche, Ingmar
AU - Cornils, Kerstin
PY - 2017/3/3
Y1 - 2017/3/3
N2 - Genetic barcodes are increasingly used to track individual cells and to quantitatively assess their clonal contributions over time. Although barcode quantification relies entirely on counting sequencing reads, detailed studies about the method's accuracy are still limited. We report on a systematic investigation of the relation between barcode abundance and resulting read counts after amplification and sequencing using cell-mixtures that contain barcodes with known frequencies ("miniBulks"). We evaluated the influence of protocol modifications to identify potential sources of error and elucidate possible limitations of the quantification approach. Based on these findings we designed an advanced barcode construct (BC32) to improved barcode calling and quantification, and to ensure a sensitive detection of even highly diluted barcodes. Our results emphasize the importance of using curated barcode libraries to obtain interpretable quantitative data and underline the need for rigorous analyses of any utilized barcode library in terms of reliability and reproducibility.
AB - Genetic barcodes are increasingly used to track individual cells and to quantitatively assess their clonal contributions over time. Although barcode quantification relies entirely on counting sequencing reads, detailed studies about the method's accuracy are still limited. We report on a systematic investigation of the relation between barcode abundance and resulting read counts after amplification and sequencing using cell-mixtures that contain barcodes with known frequencies ("miniBulks"). We evaluated the influence of protocol modifications to identify potential sources of error and elucidate possible limitations of the quantification approach. Based on these findings we designed an advanced barcode construct (BC32) to improved barcode calling and quantification, and to ensure a sensitive detection of even highly diluted barcodes. Our results emphasize the importance of using curated barcode libraries to obtain interpretable quantitative data and underline the need for rigorous analyses of any utilized barcode library in terms of reliability and reproducibility.
KW - Journal Article
U2 - 10.1038/srep43249
DO - 10.1038/srep43249
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 28256524
VL - 7
SP - 43249
JO - SCI REP-UK
JF - SCI REP-UK
SN - 2045-2322
ER -