Hydrodynamic shearing of DNA in a polymeric microfluidic device.

Nesterova, Irina V; Hupert, Mateusz L; Witek, Malgorzata A; Soper, Steven A · Lab Chip · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

With the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) systems and the associated high throughput they afford, the input to these machines requires manageable lengths of fragments (~1000 bp) produced from chromosomal DNAs. Therefore, it is critical to develop devices that can shear DNA in a controlled fashion. We report a polymer-based microfluidic device that establishes an efficient and inexpensive platform with performance comparable to a commercially available bench-top system.

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