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SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

NOTE: For RNA sequencing with UMIs for picogram sample inputs, we recommend the reconfigured version of the kit below, SMART-Seq Total RNA Pico Input with UMIs (ZapR Mammalian) (Cat. # 634354, 634355 & 634356).

SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian (Cat. # 634485, 634486, 634487 & 634488) will be phased out within a year. Contact your local sales representative for more information.

The SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian is designed for efficient preparation of Illumina sequencing libraries from picogram input amounts (250 pg–10 ng) of high-quality, partially degraded, or low-quality total RNA, including total RNA prepared from FFPE or LCM samples. Updates to our original kit include improved sequencing performance on all Illumina platforms, as well as seamless integration of unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) into the library preparation workflow.

SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian (Cat. # 634485, 634486, 634487 & 634488) will be phased out soon. Contact your local sales representative for more information.

The kit features a streamlined workflow that retains strand information and incorporates indexes and adapters during the reverse-transcription and PCR-amplification steps. The entire protocol, including library prep and purification, takes only about 7.5 hours.

This kit comes prepackaged with the SMARTer RNA Unique Dual Index Kit - 24U (Cat. # 634451) and can also be used with our other SMARTer RNA Unique Dual Index Kits (Cat. # 634452 & 634457; sold separately) for larger reaction sizes, allowing library construction with up to 192 different combinations of Illumina indexes.

Alternate kits for other input amounts and options:

For 10–100 ng of total RNA, we recommend SMART-Seq Total RNA Mid Input
For 100 ng–1 µg of total RNA, we recommend SMART-Seq Total RNA High Input (RiboGone Mammalian)

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634485

SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

24 Rxns

USD $2685.00

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425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.
455	This product is sold under license from Becton Dickinson and Co., and may be the subject of U.S. Patent Nos.: 8,835,358; 9,290,809; 9,315,857; 9,708,659; 9,845,502; 10,047,394; 10,059,991; 10,202,646; 10,392,661; 10,619,203; 11,970,737; 12,060,607; and its foreign counterparts.

The SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian is used to generate strand-specific RNA-seq libraries for Illumina sequencing from 250 pg–10 ng inputs of purified total RNA or from 10–1,000 intact cells. This kit incorporates Takara Bio’s proprietary SMART (Switching Mechanism at the 5’ end of RNA Template) technology and includes refinements to the SMARTer method for stranded RNA-seq that simplify the library preparation workflow and improve sequencing performance. This method was developed to work with either high- or low-quality total RNA, does not require additional rRNA removal methods or kits, and produces sequencing libraries that retain strand-of-origin information. The integrated removal of cDNAs derived from rRNA—typically present in high abundance following cDNA synthesis from total RNA inputs—makes the workflow extremely sensitive, yielding data that is highly reproducible with low mapping to rRNA. The new library design featured in this updated kit adds an 8 nucleotide (nt) unique molecular identifier (UMI) through the reverse-transcription step to mitigate potential PCR bias as well as to provide customers with additional information for transcript quantification, specifically for true variants and rare mutations. This kit includes the SMARTer RNA Unique Dual Index Kit - 24U (Takara Bio, Cat. No. 634451). SMARTer RNA Unique Dual Index Kit – 96U Set A and B (Cat. #s 634452, and 634457) are available for purchase. Together they offer up to 192 unique dual indexes for multiplexing.

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Our products are to be used for Research Use Only. They may not be used for any other purpose, including, but not limited to, use in humans, therapeutic or diagnostic use, or commercial use of any kind. Our products may not be transferred to third parties, resold, modified for resale, or used to manufacture commercial products or to provide a service to third parties without our prior written approval.

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634486

SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

48 Rxns

USD $4265.00

License Statement

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425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.
455	This product is sold under license from Becton Dickinson and Co., and may be the subject of U.S. Patent Nos.: 8,835,358; 9,290,809; 9,315,857; 9,708,659; 9,845,502; 10,047,394; 10,059,991; 10,202,646; 10,392,661; 10,619,203; 11,970,737; 12,060,607; and its foreign counterparts.

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634487

SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

96 Rxns

USD $5504.00

License Statement

ID Number
425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.
455	This product is sold under license from Becton Dickinson and Co., and may be the subject of U.S. Patent Nos.: 8,835,358; 9,290,809; 9,315,857; 9,708,659; 9,845,502; 10,047,394; 10,059,991; 10,202,646; 10,392,661; 10,619,203; 11,970,737; 12,060,607; and its foreign counterparts.

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634488

SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

192 Rxns

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License Statement

ID Number
425	LIMITED USE LABEL LICENSE: RESEARCH USE ONLY Notice to Purchaser: This product is the subject to a license granted to Takara Bio USA, Inc. and its Affiliates from Caribou Biosciences, Inc., and this product is transferred to the end-user purchaser (“Purchaser”) subject to a “Limited Use Label License” conveying to the Purchaser a limited, nontransferable right to use the product, solely as provided to Purchaser, together with (i) progeny or derivatives of the product generated by the Purchaser (including but not limited to cells), and (ii) biological material extracted or derived from the product or its corresponding progeny or derivatives (including but not limited to cells) (collectively, the product, and (i) and (ii) are referred to as “Material”) only to perform internal research for the sole benefit of the Purchaser. The Purchaser cannot sell or otherwise transfer Material to a third party or otherwise use the Material for any Excluded Use. “Excluded Use” means any and all: (a) commercial activity including, but not limited to, any use in manufacturing (including but not limited to cell line development for purposes of bioproduction), product testing, or quality control; (b) preclinical or clinical testing or other activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or any other regulatory agency in any country or jurisdiction where the active agent in such studies comprises the Material; (c) use to provide a service, information, or data to a third party with the sole exception of using the Material to conduct in vitro sample preparation, i.e., selectively depleting target cDNAs from a sample either by cleaving or selectively separating such target cDNAs from the sample through the use of the Materials; (d) use for human or animal therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic purposes or as a product for therapeutics, diagnostics, or prophylaxis; (e) activity in an agricultural field trial or any activity directed toward the submission of data to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or any other agriculture regulatory agency; (f) high throughput screening drug discovery purposes (i.e., the screening of more than 10,000 experiments per day) as well as scale-up production activities for commercialization; (g) modification of human germline, including editing of human embryo genomes (with the sole exception of editing human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines for research purposes) or reproductive cells; (h) self-editing; and/or (i) stimulation of biased inheritance of a particular gene or trait or set of genes or traits (“gene drive”). It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to use the Material in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. For information on obtaining additional rights, including commercial rights, please contact licensing@cariboubio.com or Caribou Biosciences, Inc., 2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA, Attn: Licensing
392	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of:US10941397, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480057094.4, US10781443, US10954510, DE602014069266.4, EP3058104, FR3058104, UK3058104, JP6602294, SE3058104, CA2923812, and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Information on relevant patents and licenses for this product may be found at: https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
395	This Product is protected by one or more patents from the family consisting of: US10150985, CA2939621, People's Republic of China Patent: ZL201480077658.0, US10988796, DE602014058059.9, EP3105325, FR3105325, UK3105325, JP6416939 and any corresponding patents, divisionals, continuations, patent applications and foreign filings sharing common priority with the same family. Additional information may be found at https://www.takarabio.com/patents.
450	This Product is sold under license from JumpCode Genomics, Inc., and is covered by one or more of the following US patents and foreign counterparts as well as pending US and foreign patent applications: 10,604,802; 11,708,606; 11,761,039; PCT/US2015/014242; CA2938669; EP 20192599.7; HK402021031164.3.
455	This product is sold under license from Becton Dickinson and Co., and may be the subject of U.S. Patent Nos.: 8,835,358; 9,290,809; 9,315,857; 9,708,659; 9,845,502; 10,047,394; 10,059,991; 10,202,646; 10,392,661; 10,619,203; 11,970,737; 12,060,607; and its foreign counterparts.

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Overview

Accommodates picogram inputs of starting material—start from 250 pg–10 ng of total RNA or 10–1,000 intact cells from human, mouse, or rat
Seamless integration of UMIs—accurately identify true variants and rare mutations and mitigate potential PCR amplification bias and sequencing errors
Versatile—generate reproducible data from RNA of any quality (including FFPE and LCM samples and cell-free RNA)
Fast, streamlined protocol—go from start to finish in ~7.5 hours and save time during library purification with an improved buffer formulation
Compatible with Illumina sequencing—generate Illumina-ready libraries with up to 192 combinations of indexes

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Robust NGS library construction that retains strand information
RNA-seq on all Illumina platforms
Coding and noncoding information from total mammalian RNA of any quality, including RNA obtained from FFPE samples

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Please see the product's Certificate of Analysis for information about storage conditions, product components, and technical specifications. Please see the Kit Components List to determine kit components. Certificates of Analysis and Kit Components Lists are located under the Documents tab.

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SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

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634485: SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

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634486: SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

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634487: SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

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634488: SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v3 - Pico Input Mammalian

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