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Table 1 Coverage selectivity by method

From: Assessing characteristics of RNA amplification methods for single cell RNA sequencing

Source

Protocol

Genome coverage

% exons (excluding rRNA & mitochondria)

% intronic

% rRNA (nuclear)

% rRNA (mitochondrial)

% mitochondrial (non-rRNA)

Ave.

Sd.

Ave.

Sd.

Ave.

Sd.

Ave.

Sd.

Ave.

Sd.

HBR

aRNA

59.07

5.70

23.29

4.68

0.03

0.02

4.82

1.62

12.29

2.79

SmartSeq Plus

41.00

0.86

39.56

0.85

1.28

0.07

10.02

0.43

7.77

0.26

NuGen

29.27

4.97

45.09

5.88

1.33

0.40

20.38

5.19

3.65

0.59

Bulk (Poly-A)

80.13

-

8.52

-

0.08

-

1.96

-

9.01

-

Bulk (rRNA-depleted)

61.44

0.54

37.89

0.45

0.03

0.01

0.10

0.04

0.25

0.04

UHR

aRNA

71.57

2.34

23.02

2.60

0.06

0.05

1.61

0.19

3.38

0.59

SmartSeq Plus

35.89

0.89

52.84

0.94

0.31

0.02

6.20

0.26

3.85

0.12

NuGen

33.00

4.02

39.33

8.99

1.25

0.57

23.47

7.31

2.59

0.62

Bulk (Poly-A)

86.99

-

7.11

-

0.11

-

0.47

-

5.09

-

Bulk (rRNA-depleted)

58.17

0.34

41.28

0.29

0.02

0.01

0.03

0.01

0.18

0.02

  1. Average percent of aligned reads assigned to genomic regions for each method. Nuclear rRNA includes rRNA genes, pseudogenes and repeats. See Methods for definitions of genomic regions