Table 1 Library building techniques and mapping statistics across mouse faecal small RNA sequencing studies

From: An optimised faecal microRNA sequencing pipeline reveals fibrosis in Trichuris muris infection

Sample information

Liu et al. (n = 15)

Tomkovich et al. (n = 21)

He et al. (n = 11)

Layton et al. (current n = 31)

Faecal storage prior to extraction

Snap frozen

Snap frozen

N.S.

4 °C in RNAlater

immediate extraction

Extraction kit and RNA enrichment

MirVana total RNA

MirVana small RNA

MirVana total RNA

MirVana total RNA

Library kit

Nextflex

NEBnext

NEBnext

NEBnext

Sequencing machine

NextSeq

MiSeq

HiSeq

HiSeq

Raw reads (range)

33,775,633 (20,170,514–55,664,440)

794,663 (354,995–1,595,598)

21,620,070 (19,922,251–23,545,474)

26,246,329 (13,603,079–39,286,425)

Reads passing QC & filtering

25.14% (8,530,128)

29.24% (233,169)

41.54% (8,910,852)

38.8% (10,267,557)

tRNA reads

after filtering

0.21% (17,868)

1.23% (3,156)

0.62% (55,163)

0.27% (27,905)

rRNA reads

after filtering and tRNA removal

8.4% (729,226)

57.95% (132,593)

18.91% (1,775,245)

24.56% (2,581,720)

Reads mapping to mouse genome

after filtering, tRNA and rRNA removal

16.75% (1,310,227)

45.11% (41431)

21.17% (1,367,993)

25.48% (1,922,223)

Raw miRNA reads as % of total reads passing QC

0.19%

0.62%

0.40%

0.46%

Raw miRNA reads (range)

16,562 (1444–51,429)

1,351 (174–4113)

30,262 (16,812–47,642)

43,989 (10,172–122,794)

Normalised miRNA reads (range)

10,735 (9434–14,099)

878 (699–1083)

28,522 (21,285–37,969)

35,225 (28,948–42,443)

miRNA species detected at >10 raw counts in 5 samples

83

25

121

120

  1. Mapping statistics displayed are the average across all samples in each study after re-analysis of the published raw data with the bioinformatics pipeline developed in this study.
  2. N.S. not stated.