title: Transcriptome of bovine mastitis E. coli
design: The RNeasy Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Germantown, MD) was used to extract RNA from the bacterial cells and genomic DNA was subsequently removed using Turbo DNA-free DNase (Ambion, Austin, TX) as per manufacturer’s directions.  Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) was depleted using the Ribo-Zero rRNA Removal Kit (Bacteria) according to the product instructions