Small RNA profiling of low biomass samples: identification and removal of contaminants.
Anna Heintz-BuschartDilmurat YusufAnne KaysenAlton EtheridgeJoëlle V FritzPatrick MayCarine de BeaufortBimal B UpadhyayaAnubrata GhosalDavid J GalasPaul WilmesPublished in: BMC biology (2018)
This is the first report on the presence of RNA molecules as contaminants in RNA extraction kits. The described protocols should be applied in the future to avoid confounding sRNA studies.