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Lysis and High Molecular Weight DNA Extraction from Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells Powered by AFA-energetics®

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This application note describes an automatable approach to cell lysis and extraction of high molecular weight DNA from microbial samples, which can be sequenced with long-read sequencing technology.

Active paraffin removal from FFPE tissues with Adaptive Focused Acoustics

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Covaris developed a method of active paraffin removal from FFPE tissues using AFA technology. AFA treatment is applied to a FFPE sample and paraffin is separated from the tissue by emulsification.

DNA Shearing for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) with the M220 Focused-ultrasonicator

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DNA Shearing for NGS with the ME220 Focused-ultrasonicator.

Analysis of DNA fragments using the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer

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DNA shearing protocols for Focused-ultrasonicators with the Agilent DNA 12000 kit was used to evaluate the average base pair size because of the large fragment size range, from 130 bp to 5 kb range.

Optimized Covaris truXTRAC® FFPE RNA Protocol for Isolating RNA from Laser-Capture Microdissected (LCM) FFPE Tissue for Next Generation Sequencing

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Covaris truXTRAC FFPE RNA kits and Focused-ultrasonicators enables NGS-grade nucleic acids for RNA sequencing, a feat previously challenging when using low input FFPE tissue such LCM-FFPE samples.

Lysis and Extraction of Biomolecules from Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells Powered by AFA-energetics®

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Covaris developed a novel automatable approach for the extraction of biomolecules from microbial samples for analysis with mass spectrometry technologies using Adaptive Focused Acoustics® technology.

DNA Extraction from FFPE samples with Covaris Focused-ultrasonicators

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When an Adaptive Focused Acoustics (AFA) treatment is applied to a FFPE sample to extract DNA, it simultaneously deparaffinizes the sample, emulsifies the paraffin, and rehydrates the tissue.

Active Extraction of Native Proteins from Yeast using Covaris Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA®)

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Native protein extraction reagents were tested for total protein yield and preservation of enzymatic activity using a “passive extraction” or an AFA-based “active extraction” method, both increased.

Optimizing Sample Fixation and Chromatin Shearing for Improved Sensitivity and Reproducibility of Chromatin Immunoprecipitation

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Adaptive Focused Acoustic (AFA) technology provides precise control over mechanical shearing and thermal control during processing to deliver high quality chromatin for sensitive results.

Cross-linked Yeast Chromatin shearing on the Covaris E210

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Shearing cross-linked yeast samples on the Covaris E210.

A Streamlined Workflow to Perform ChIP from FFPE Samples

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We demonstrate how AFA® technology combined with truXTRAC® and truChIP® effectively recovers chromatin suitable for studying histone modifications and transcription factor binding interaction events.

Impact of AFA-energetics™ on Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Proteins

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A novel fully automatable approach to improve trypsin digestion of protein samples is presented.

High-Throughput, Low Volume gDNA Extraction from Whole Blood Enabled by Covaris Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA®) and AFA-TUBE® TPX

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Extraction of gDNA from whole blood is the first step in multiple translational research and molecular diagnostics applications, such as next-generation sequencing, multiplex PCR, qPCR, and ddPCR.

Nuclei EXtraction by SONication - NEXSON

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NEXSON

Optimizing a Dual Fixation Protocol to Study Protein Complexes Binding to Chromatin in vivo

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This application note provides shearing profiles, evaluates epitope integrity each shearing time and ChIP-qPCR results obtained using single step formaldehyde fixation and dual crosslinking protocol.

Preparation of whole body Caenorhabditis elegans extracts for chromatin immunoprecipitation using the Covaris® S220 Focused-ultrasonicator

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This application note provides a sample preparation protocol using the Covaris S220 that can be used by investigators looking to process whole body C. elegans extracts for ChIP-based applications.

truXTRAC® FFPE RNA Extraction and Purification - Quality Metrics for Clinical Applications Powered by Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA®)

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FFPE RNA Extraction

Combining Covaris 96 AFA-TUBE TPX Plate with Swift Biosciences Accel-NGS 2S Kit for an Optimized Single Tube Workflow for Robust, Low Input NGS Library Preparation

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AFA-TUBE Case study

AFA-based Sputum Liquification to Enable Downstream Microbial Analysis

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Sputim Liquification

Amplicon Shearing Using a Covaris® Focused-ultrasonicator

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In this application note, we describe the use of Covaris AFA® technology for mechanical DNA shearing of amplicons ranging in size in preparation for massively parallel high-throughput sequencing.

Optimized Protocol for Robust Chromatin Shearing and Immunoprecipitation of Human Pancreatic Islets using the Covaris® Focused-ultrasonicator

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We demonstrate how the Covaris S220 Focused-ultrasonicator provides highly reproducible chromatin shearing, resulting in improved signal-to-noise ratios and sensitivity for ChIP-seq or ChIP-qPCR.

AFA-energetics®- Mediated RNA Extraction from Yeast

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Mediated RNA Extraction from Yeast

Variability in DNA Fragment Size and Distribution Analysis Across Various Fragment Analyzers

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DNA Fragmentation

A Comparison of Active and Passive FFPE DNA Extraction Methods and Effects on Downstream Analysis Metrics

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Active and Passive FFPE DNA Extraction

AFA-based MALDI Biotyper Sample Preparation for Mycobacteria Colonies

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AFA-based MALDI

Covaris Shearing Guide for 500 Base Pairs using the 96 AFA-TUBE TPX Plate

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This application note provides additional support for the current AFA-TUBE TPX shearing protocol to achieve 500 base pair (bp) DNA fragments using AFA® on the LE220-plus Focused-ultrasonicator.

Nucleic Acid Extraction from Laser-Capture Microdissected (LCM) FFPE Tissues

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LCM

Covaris DNA shearing guide for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System©

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DNA Shearing

Protein Extraction from Yeast: Comparison of the Covaris Adaptive Focused Acoustics®(AFA) Process to Conventional Bead Beating and Probe Sonication

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The efficiency of several mechanical-based lysis and extraction techniques, such as Adaptive Focused Acoustics (AFA), probe sonication, and bead beating from yeast isolates was compared.

Simplifying ChIP from Primary Cells and Clinical Samples for High-throughput Epigenetic Applications

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Large-scale analysis of histone marks and transcription factor interactions uses high-quality chromatin, use of validated ChIP-grade antibodies, and optimized reagents to produce meaningful results.

Affinity-based Enrichment Analyses of DNA Methylation MCIp, MeDIP, hMeDIP

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MeDIP

Chromatin Isolation by RNA Purification - ChIRP

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ChIRP

Covaris cryoPREP® with AFA: Enabling High-resolution Diagnostic Metagenomics

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cryoPREP Applications

Release of Microbial Cells from a Solid Matrix, Cell Lysis, and Shearing of Released Nucleic Acids Performed in a One-Step Procedure

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Release of Microbial Cells

Evaluation of Next Generation Library Preparation using DNA Extracted from Dried Blood Spots using truXTRAC® DBS DNA kit

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The truXTRAC DBS DNA kit efficiently extracts NGS-grade DNA. AFA enables rehydration and provides cell lysis and mechanical DNA shearing, resulting in NGS library preparation ready DNA.

AFA-energetics®-Mediated DNA Extraction from Yeast and Bacteria Using Scanning in a Labcyte 384-well Plate

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This document describes the optimized AFA-energetics dose to lyse and extract DNA from S. cerevisiae, E. coli, & L. monocytogenes using a proprietary scanning method 384-well plates.

Assessing FFPE DNA Quality: The “Illumina FFPE QC Kit” Enables Quantitation of Improvements in FFPE DNA Extraction Technologies

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We used the Illumina FFPE QC kit (2) to assess the quality of DNA extracted from two different extraction technologies using four different types of FFPE samples.

Streamlined Ultra Low Sample Input and Processing Volume Chromatin Shearing Protocols for Fly Embryos and Mammalian Cell Lines

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These protocols have been optimized for both mammalian cell lines and fly embryos and reliably fragment chromatin in low volumes from down to 10,000 mammalian cells and 5 stage-17 Drosophila embryos.

Covaris truSHEAR Mechanical DNA Shearing for NGS Applications

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Mechanical DNA Shearing

Automated NGS Library Preparation with Beckman Biomek FXP and Covaris E220

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Key parameters for high quality library preparation are homogeneity of the library insert size and un-biased fragmentation profile, which is why Covaris AFA technology was chosen to fragment the DNA.

Transitioning from custom amplicon-based parallel sequencing to hybrid capture-based sequencing in molecular pathology routine diagnostics

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Molecular Pahology

Pipetting Best Practices for Covaris 96 microTUBE Plate and 8 microTUBE Strip in Automated Liquid Handlers

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Covaris labware has multi-well formats, like the 96 microTUBE Plate and 8 microTUBE Strip. The hardware and methods described here maximize the robustness of robot pipetting in Covaris consumables.

Cross-linked Yeast Chromatin Shearing on the Covaris Focused-ultrasonicator

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The Broad Institute developed a cross-linked chromatin shearing protocol for yeast samples that utilizes the Covaris E210 Focused-ultrasonicator, to be used prior to immunoprecipitation.

High-resolution Chromosome Conformation Capture: Hi-C

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Hi-C

Shallow Whole Genome Sequencing Workflow - sWGS

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sWGS

Chromosome Conformation Capture Using Biotinylated Oligos - Capture-C

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Capture-C

Magnetic Bead-based Clean-up Using AFA-energetics®

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When precisely tuned, this stream of Covaris Adaptive Focused Acoustic energy enables DNA shearing precisely and reliably to desired fragment sizes, in addition to gentle contact-free sample mixing.

AFA-sonication Followed by Modified Protein Aggregation Capture (APAC) Enables Direct, Reproducible and Non-toxic Sample Preparation of FFPE Tissue for Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics

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The preparation of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue for mass spectrometry-based (MS) proteomics relies on efficient removal of paraffin, which commonly involves toxic xylol as gold standard.

AFA-based MALDI Biotyper™ Sample Prep for MGIT™ Positive Mycobacteria Cultures

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Positive Mycobacteria Cultures

Microbiome Sample Preparation: Efficient DNA Extraction and Optional Mechanical Shearing

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DNA Extraction

Formaldehyde-Assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements - FAIRE

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FAIRE

HiC Chromatin Immunoprecipitation - Hi-ChIP

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Hi-ChIP

An Effect of a Shearing Process on the Re-Sequencing of the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome

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Shearing Process of Arabedopis

Automated NGS Library Construction with Eppendorf epMotion® 5075t/TMX and Covaris® Focused-ultrasonicators

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This guide provides users with a complete set of protocols that encompass all Covaris AFA® instruments for DNA shearing to be readily compatible with the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System.

Chromatin Interaction Analysis by Paired-End Tag Sequencing - ChIA-PET

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ChIA-PET

High Quality DNA and RNA Extraction and Purification from FFPE Samples with Covaris truXTRAC® FFPE tNA Ultra Kit – Magnetic Beads

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AFA-based Efficient DNA Extraction and Optional Mechanical Shearing from Mycobacteria smegmatis

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DNA Extraction from mycobacteria smegmatis.

AFA-based RNA Extraction from Mycobacteria smegmatis

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RNA Extraction

truCOLLECT^® - Blood Application Note

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Single Cell/Nuclei Isolation from Fresh Frozen Tissue

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Effective disruption of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms using Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA®)

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Automated Clinical Rapid Whole Exome Sequencing with the Covaris R230 Focused-ultrasonicator

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