title: GSM8369853: PbANKA wild type strain, control 3; Plasmodium berghei ANKA; RNA-Seq
library_construction_protocol: activated gametocytes from WT and Δpbpp6 parasite were purified with 48% Nycodenz and activated in gametocyte activation buffer at 25℃ for 15 min mRNA was enriched using poly-T oligo-attached magnetic beads. Reverse transcription was performed with SuperScript II (Invitrogen) using random primers. The reaction was then treated with RNaseH to remove the RNA template and cleaned using DNA Clean and Concentrator Kit (Zymo Research). The clustering of the index-coded samples was performed on a cBot Cluster Generation System using TruSeq PE Cluster Kit v3-cBot-HS (Illumia) according to the manufacturer's instructions. After cluster generation, the library preparations were sequenced using the Illumina platform. RNA-seq raw data were initially filtered by fastq to obtain high-quality, clean data. Adapter trimming was performed using cutadapt version 1.13 (http://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guide.html). Processed reads were aligned to the P. berghei ANA genome (assembly PlasmoDB-67) with Hisat2 v2.0.4 [108] and deduplicated according to UMI using UMI-tools (v1.0.0)