title: miRNA-Seq analysis of RT sample TARGET-52-PASGGN-01A-01R
design: miRNA-Seq analysis of rhabdoid tumor sample TARGET-52-PASGGN-01A-01R using Illumina HiSeq 2500
library_construction_protocol: Small RNAs, containing microRNA (miRNA), are recovered by ethanol precipitation from total RNA. MiRNA-seq libraries are constructed using a 96-well plate-based protocol developed at the BC Cancer Agency, Genome Sciences Centre. Briefly, an adenylated single-stranded DNA 3' adapter is selectively ligated to miRNAs using a truncated T4 RNA ligase2 (NEB Canada, cat. M0242L). An RNA 5' adapter is then added, using a T4 RNA ligase (Ambion USA, cat. AM2141) and ATP. Next, first strand cDNA is synthesized using Superscript II Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen, cat.18064 014), and serves as the template for PCR. Index sequences (6 nucleotides) are introduced at this PCR step to enable multiplexed pooling of miRNA libraries. PCR products are pooled, then size-selected on an in-house developed 96-channel robot to enrich the miRNA containing fraction and remove adapter contaminants. Each size-selected indexed pool is ethanol precipitated and quality checked on an Agilent Bioanalyzer DNA 1000 chip and quantified using a Qubit fluorometer (Invitrogen, cat. Q32854). Each pool is then diluted to a target concentration for cluster generation and loaded into a single lane of an Illumina flow cell for sequencing with a 31-bp main read (for the insert) and a 7-bp read for the index.