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Ben W. F. Colville

Howard Hughes Medical InstituteORCID 0000-0002-8809-6697Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1

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tinyRNA-seq: An optimized approach to sequencing tiny RNAs and primitive RNA genomes

Ben W. F. Colville, Jamie Zhao, Liam Hade, Jack W. Szostak

The paper introduces tinyRNA-seq, a method to sequence very short RNAs with reduced bias, and shows it outperforms commercial kits in capturing small RNA sequences.

bioRxiv · Aug 7, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry

Overcoming nucleotide bias in the nonenzymatic copying of RNA templates.

Daniel Duzdevich, Christopher E. Carr, Ben W. F. Colville, Harry R. M. Aitken, Jack W. Szostak

This study demonstrates a method to overcome nucleotide bias in nonenzymatic RNA copying using a prebiotically plausible mixture of nucleotides and oligonucleotides.

Nucleic Acids Research · Oct 14, 2024Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology