Wild mammal studies can depend on samples collected far from standard lab infrastructure. In this customer spotlight, Dr. Marie-Claude Gingras, Ph.D., Director of the Nucleic Acids Laboratory at the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, explains how her team recovered high-quality DNA from blood samples collected in Africa and stored for weeks at ambient temperatures up to 35°C in RNAlater preservative.
After salt-out precipitation and phenol/chloroform extraction failed, the team used bead affinity capture with the GenFind V3 Genomic DNA Extraction Kit, and the recovered DNA successfully supported library preparation and whole genome sequencing.
Download the customer spotlight to see how the team recovered high-quality DNA from unstable, field-collected blood samples with yields up to 31.1 µg, 260/280 ratios > 1.8, DNA greater than 10 kb and sequencing results that supported 30X mean coverage with duplicate reads <15%.
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