Optimal exosome RNA library prep?

10 October 2015 1 248 Report

I am a little confused on what to focus on. miRNAs are the most important, but there are longer RNAs in exosomes too... is there a way to sequence both at the same time? Or would it be better to do that separately? Why?

Sandip Chakraborty

You can please follow the links below to obtain certain interesting informations:-

1. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046202312001867

2. https://cofactorgenomics.com/exosome-rna-seq-primer/

3. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2013/253957/

4. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/14/319

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