Communications Biology (Jan 2021)

The spatial RNA integrity number assay for in situ evaluation of transcriptome quality

  • Linda Kvastad,
  • Konstantin Carlberg,
  • Ludvig Larsson,
  • Eva Gracia Villacampa,
  • Alexander Stuckey,
  • Linnea Stenbeck,
  • Annelie Mollbrink,
  • Margherita Zamboni,
  • Jens Peter Magnusson,
  • Elisa Basmaci,
  • Alia Shamikh,
  • Gabriela Prochazka,
  • Anna-Lena Schaupp,
  • Åke Borg,
  • Lars Fugger,
  • Monica Nistér,
  • Joakim Lundeberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01573-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Kvastad et al. develop the spatial RNA Integrity Number (sRIN) assay that evaluates the RNA integrity at cellular resolution. This method improves the resolution of a similar method called the RNA Integrity Number (RIN), demonstrating spatial variation in the quality of RNA samples.