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Sequencing and de novo analysis of a coral larval transcriptome using 454 GSFlx

Eli Meyer1*, Galina V Aglyamova1, Shi Wang1, Jade Buchanan-Carter2, David Abrego3, John K Colbourne2, Bette L Willis3 and Mikhail V Matz1

1 University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0930, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

2 The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, 915 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

3 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:219 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-219

Published: 12 May 2009

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Validation of singleton sequences and contig joining procedure by PCR amplification. This document contains gel photographs of the PCR products obtained from validation of randomly-selected scaffold and singleton sequences.

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Effects of sequence length on the proportion of sequences for which significant matches were found. This PDF file contains a bar plot summarizing the effects of sequence length on the proportion of sequences for which significant blast matches were found.

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Validation of predicted SNPs by PCR and Sanger sequencing. The table in this document shows the primer sequences used to amplify and sequence each of the 20 SNPs selected for validation, as well as the different alleles detected for each.

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Detailed protocol for preparing cDNA for 454 transcriptome sequencing. This document gives a step-by-step protocol for preparing cDNA for 454 sequencing.

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