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Sequencing
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 767959, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/767959
Cost-Effective Paramagnetic Bead Technique for Purification of Cycle Sequencing Products
1Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Viruses Laboratory Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
2Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Received 1 June 2012; Revised 23 August 2012; Accepted 29 August 2012
Academic Editor: Jose M. Requena
Copyright © 2012 Slavica Mijatovic-Rustempasic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The quality of sequencing results depends greatly upon the quality and purity of the template as well as the purity of the fluorescently labeled products generated by cycle sequencing. Numerous approaches have been used for purification of cycle sequencing products, including alcohol precipitation, affinity-based chromatography, size exclusion chromatography, commercially-available proprietary methods, and paramagnetic bead technology. In this paper, we describe an affordable paramagnetic technology method using BioMag Carboxyl beads. Compared to other well-established, proprietary methods for purification of cycle sequencing products, this method produced consistently good results, with a very low reagent cost and short procedure time.