BioMicroCenter:Singular Sequencing

Singular Sequencing

The Center currently hosts a G4 platform by Singular Genomics. Singular’s G4 platform is a short-read mid-throughput sequencing platform delivering adequate sequencing data through its proprietary sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry at a significantly competitive price point. The G4 platform is unique in its flexibility to run 1 to 4 flow cells in parallel, each with 4 independent lanes.

Service	Singular Sequencing
INPUT	Illumina or Singular libraries
MIN VOLUME	12 uL
MIN CONCENTRATION	4 nM
INCLUDED SERVICES	Quality Control:Fragment Analyzer and qPCR Singular Sequencing Demultiplexing
ADDITIONAL SERVICES	Quality Control Singular library preperation
DATA FORMATS	FASTQ (stored 1 year)
QUALITY CONTROL	FASTQC Basic run metrics (alignment rate, complexity) Basic RNAseq metrics (where applicable) Basic paired end metrics (where applicable) Contamination checks
PRICING	LINK
SUBMISSION	MIT - ilabs

| We can only guarantee minimum reads per lane if: a)the BMC has performed quality control, b)the samples are high-complexity, especially for the first 10 nt of read 1, and c)submitted libraries are at least 2 nM.

The G4 Platform

SPEC	G4
SEQUENCER
READS/LANE Low number is minimum per lane for standard Illumina libraries.	F3 per Lane: 50-100 M
RUN TIME	50 PE 11 hours 150 PE 24 hours
KITS AVAILABLE	100nt 300nt
KNOWN APPLICATIONS	RNAseq including single cell Gene Expression Exome Target Enrichment Metagenomics
KEY NOTES	4-color chemistry Patterned flow cell 4-lanes per flow cell 4-flow cells per run Index replacement or anchor expansion of Illumina libraries
THANKS TO	Singular Genomics

Workflow

Library prep options for DNA or RNA are available for Singular sequencing. Once Singular libraries are prepared, we verify fragment size via AATI's Fragment Analyzer and quantify the final loading pool via qPCR.

Requirements

1. All 4 bases (A, G, C, T) must appear within the first 10 cycles of read 1.
2. Both forward and reverse read strands are present and accessible during sequencing. After a read completes, a block is introduced to prevent any continued extension of the growing read chain, but the generated read chain is NOT denatured/melted away before the priming and extension of the next read.
3. Lane-by-lane requests must be either 50 or 150 paired-end compatible and compatible with TruSeq, Nextera, TruSeq, smRNA and Solexa sequencing primers. All other requests will require a 4 lane minimum since all lanes use the flowcell's sequencing primers and this includes Illumina libraries which have been converted by adding S1 and S2 to omit P5 and P7 regions.
4. Indexes are read off flow cell binding regions, S1 and S2. For standard lane-by-lane requests, the first index will be read off the S1 region of the final library, and index 2 will be read off the S2 region. Compared to a typical Illumina library, a Singular index 1 would be the reverse compliment of the i5 index, whereas index 2 would be the reverse compliment of the i7 index.
5. Singular also supports the conversion of Illumina libraries through either index replacement or anchor expansion for completed libraries that wish to be run on this platform. Index hopping rates are near zero, limiting the need for UDI's.