A scalable, fully automated process for construction of sequence-ready human exome targeted capture libraries

Abstract

Genome targeting methods enable cost-effective capture of specific subsets of the genome for sequencing. We present here an automated, highly scalable method for carrying out the Solution Hybrid Selection capture approach that provides a dramatic increase in scale and throughput of sequence-ready libraries produced. Significant process improvements and a series of in-process quality control checkpoints are also added. These process improvements can also be used in a manual version of the protocol.© 2011 Fisher et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.