Abstract:
A method for making a recombinant gene includes searching a database using a nucleotide sequence of a coding region, a nucleotide sequence that encodes an amino acid sequence, or an amino acid sequence, of a gene, for one or more nucleotide sequences having homology; selecting one or more nucleotide sequences other than nucleotide sequences only derived from a genome from the selected nucleotide sequences; for ones of the selected one or more nucleotide sequences comprising an upstream or downstream nucleotide sequence, analyzing whether the upstream or downstream nucleotide sequence is a functional sequence to select one or more first functional sequences; for ones of the selected one or more nucleotide sequences comprising no upstream or downstream nucleotide sequence, analyzing whether a gene information has any description indicating a functional sequence to select one or more second functional sequences; scoring the selected functional sequences; and selecting one or more functional sequences.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a circular single-stranded nucleic acid, and a method for preparing the same and a method for using the same. A circular single-stranded nucleic acid according to one embodiment of the present invention is a circular single-stranded nucleic acid for determining a target base on a genomic DNA, and includes a first single-stranded nucleic acid which has the target base or a complementary base thereto and is a part of one of the strands of the genomic DNA, and a second single-stranded nucleic acid which has an index sequence to serve as an index of a cell, from which the genomic DNA is derived, or a complementary sequence thereto.
Abstract:
The purpose of the invention is to provide novel cell culture substrates, cell culture vessels, and methods for cell culture. A cell culture substrate having a planar mesh structure, the substrate being coated with a polymer, is provided. Cells are cultured in a cell culture vessel having this substrate.
Abstract:
In order to interpret an arbitrary sequence region in many genes in many cells, it is necessary to degrade a nucleic acid into fragments and introduce a sequence that is different from one cell to another into each of the fragments. However, in the conventional configuration for analyzing many cells, there has been a problem that mixing of the degraded fragments among areas occurs before a tag sequence unique for each of the areas is introduced. The present invention provides a system for capturing a nucleic acid extracted from a cell in each of plural areas on a substrate and synthesizing a complementary DNA (cDNA) of the nucleic acid for each of the areas, wherein the system also includes a means for immediately introducing a tag sequence unique for each of the areas to the reaction product.
Abstract:
A novel cell culture method for inducing differentiation of a pluripotent stem cell into trophoblast and an automatic culture apparatus therefor includes: a first step of culturing the pluripotent stem cell in a presence of a ROCK inhibitor during a first time period; a second step of culturing the pluripotent stem cell, which has been subjected to the first step, without the ROCK inhibitor during a second time period following the first time period; and a step of culturing the pluripotent stem cell, which has been subjected to the second step, in the presence of the ROCK inhibitor during a third time period following the second time period, in which the pluripotent stem cell is cultured in a state of being adhered to a cell culture substrate including a planar mesh through the first to third time periods.
Abstract:
In order to conduct gene expression analysis of a number of genes in a number of cells, it has been necessary to separate cells, extract genes therefrom, amplify nucleic acids, and perform sequence analysis. However, separation of cells imposes damages on the cells, and it requires the use of an expensive system. Gene expression analysis in each cell can be carried out with high accuracy by arranging a pair of structures comprising a cell trapping section and a nucleic acid trapping section in a vertical direction to extract individual genes in relevant cells, synthesizing cDNA in the nucleic acid trapping section, amplifying nucleic acids, and analyzing the sequences using a next-generation sequencer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method, a device, and an apparatus for analyzing the expression of a gene in single cells. Specifically, the present invention relates to: a device for gene expression analysis, characterized by including a support, in which a nucleic acid probe having a test nucleic acid capture sequence and a known sequence, and further containing a cell recognition tag sequence which differs depending on the difference in position on the surface of the support or in the vicinity of the surface thereof, and a common primer sequence having a known sequence is two-dimensionally distributed and immobilized on the surface of the support or in the vicinity of the surface thereof; and a method and an apparatus using the device for gene expression analysis.
Abstract:
To predict a new biological reaction by quantifying while retaining characteristics of an entire compound structure. To provide a structural characteristic amount encoding unit that includes a conversion model unit configured to convert a characteristic amount of notation information indicating chemical structures of a plurality of compounds into a dispersedly represented numerical vector having at least two or more real number values as an element using a conversion parameter, the conversion model unit converting the characteristic amount of the notation information indicating the chemical structures into a numerical vector, for each of a first compound and a second compound among the plurality of compounds, and a biological reaction characteristic vector generator configured to generate a biological reaction characteristic vector between the first compound and the second compound by performing a calculation using a numerical vector of the first compound and a numerical vector of the second compound.