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Legacy RNA-seq kits

We offer multiple generations of transcriptome analysis kits. The core SMART (Switching Mechanism at 5' end of RNA Template) technology employed by these legacy kits provides full-length transcript information, enabling analysis of transcript isoforms, gene fusions, point mutations, and more. While our newest generation of kits provide advantages over these legacy kits, we advise finishing ongoing projects with the same kit. For new experiments, we recommend using our most advanced solutions for single-cell RNA-seq or RNA-seq.

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635007

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

96 Rxns

USD $5330.00

License Statement

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275	SMART-Seq2 Technology. This product is sold under exclusive license from Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Ltd. and is covered by US Patent No. 10266894, Japanese Patent No. 6336080, and European Patent No. 3036336, and pending U.S. patent application and/or pending claims of foreign counterparts. For license information, please contact a Takara Bio USA, Inc. licensing representative by e-mail at licensing@takarabio.com.
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
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.

The SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit - Pico Input Mammalian is used to generate strand-specific RNA-seq libraries for Illumina sequencing using purified total RNA input ranging from 250 pg–10 ng. This kit takes advantage of SMARTer Stranded RNA-seq technology, based on our proprietary SMART (Switching Mechanism at the 5' end of RNA Template) technology, with the added benefits of locked nucleic acid (LNA) technology as in the SMART-Seq v4 kit. The integrated post-cDNA synthesis removal of abundant molecules originating from rRNA makes the workflow extremely sensitive with excellent reproducibility and low mapping to rRNA. This method was developed to work with either high- or low-quality total RNA and does not require additional rRNA removal methods or kits. Final libraries retain strand of origin information.

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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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Required Products

Cat. #	Product	Size	Price	License	Quantity	Details
740815.50	MN Bead Tubes Type E	50 Preps	USD $131.00
MN Bead Tubes are 2-ml screw cap plastic tubes containing different types of beads depending on the application. They are intended for the disruption of biological samples and subsequent nucleic acid purification. MN Bead Tubes Type E consists of a mixture of 40–400 µm glass and 3-mm steel beads for use with hard-to-lyse bacteria within tissue or insect samples using the NucleoSpin Lipid Tissue or NucleoSpin DNA Insect kits. The beads should be used in combination with the MN Bead Tube Holder (Cat. # 740469) and an appropriate vortexer (e.g., Vortex-Genie 2 from Scientific Industries), or with a mixer mill (e.g., from Retsch GmbH). Documents Image Data Back 740815.50: NucleoSpin Bead Tubes Type E

635006

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

48 Rxns

USD $4130.00

License Statement

ID Number
275	SMART-Seq2 Technology. This product is sold under exclusive license from Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Ltd. and is covered by US Patent No. 10266894, Japanese Patent No. 6336080, and European Patent No. 3036336, and pending U.S. patent application and/or pending claims of foreign counterparts. For license information, please contact a Takara Bio USA, Inc. licensing representative by e-mail at licensing@takarabio.com.
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
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.

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635005

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

12 Rxns

USD $1442.00

License Statement

ID Number
275	SMART-Seq2 Technology. This product is sold under exclusive license from Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Ltd. and is covered by US Patent No. 10266894, Japanese Patent No. 6336080, and European Patent No. 3036336, and pending U.S. patent application and/or pending claims of foreign counterparts. For license information, please contact a Takara Bio USA, Inc. licensing representative by e-mail at licensing@takarabio.com.
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
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.

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cDNA synthesis or Illumina-compatible library preparation from small quantities of cells or total RNA for transcriptome sequencing
cDNA outputs from these kits can be used with either our SMARTer ThruPLEX DNA-Seq Kit or with the Nextera® XT library prep kits
- cDNA from the SMARTer Ultra Low Input RNA Kit for Sequencing - v3 is also compatible with the Ion Xpress Plus Fragment Library Kit for Ion Torrent sequencing

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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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Legacy RNA-seq kits

Notice to purchaser

High reproducibility across the recommended input range

Schematic of the technologies in the SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit - Pico Input Mammalian

Improved exon mapping and transcript identification from human tissues

Improved exon mapping and transcript identification from rodent tissues

High reproducibility between libraries with or without ribosomal cDNA depletion

Efficient capture of degraded RNA

635007: SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit - Pico Input Mammalian

740815.50: NucleoSpin Bead Tubes Type E

Notice to purchaser

High reproducibility across the recommended input range

Schematic of the technologies in the SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit - Pico Input Mammalian

Improved exon mapping and transcript identification from human tissues

Improved exon mapping and transcript identification from rodent tissues

High reproducibility between libraries with or without ribosomal cDNA depletion

Efficient capture of degraded RNA

635006: SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit - Pico Input Mammalian

Notice to purchaser

High reproducibility across the recommended input range

Schematic of the technologies in the SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit - Pico Input Mammalian

Improved exon mapping and transcript identification from human tissues

Improved exon mapping and transcript identification from rodent tissues

High reproducibility between libraries with or without ribosomal cDNA depletion

Efficient capture of degraded RNA

More Information

Applications

Additional product information