Library preparation steps follow the same steps as in the DropSeq and SeqWell methods. Briefly, the beads were washed with 6×SSC twice after retrieval, and the captured mRNA was reverse-transcribed using
Maxima H Minus reverse transcriptase (ThermoFisher) with a custom template switching oligo (AAGCAGTGGTATCAACGCAGAGTGAATrGrGrG). The cDNA coated beads were treated with
Exonuclease I (Exo I, NEB) at 37°C for 45 min to chew away any unbound mRNA capture probes. cDNA on coated beads was amplified using a half PCR reaction. The amplified DNA was purified using
Ampure XP beads (Beckman Coulter) at 0.6x ratio, and the quality of the amplified DNA was assessed by
Agilent BioAnalyzer using high sensitivity chips. Purified cDNA was pooled and input for standard Nextera tagmentation and amplification reactions (
Nextera XT, Illumina) using a custom primer instead of the i5 index primer to amplify only those fragments that contain the cell barcodes and UMIs. The PCR product was further purified using
Ampure XP beads at 0.6x ratio and library quality-verified on
Agilent BioAnalyzer high sensitivity chips. The libraries were sequenced on
HiSeq 2500 (Illumina) using a custom primer with 75 cycles on Read 1 and 75 cycles on Read 2. For Read 1, only the first 20 bases were used in analysis. PhiX libraries were used at 20% as spike-in controls.
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