MERCURIUS™
Total Blood BRB-seq service
By leveraging BRB-seq, we not only provide to industrial and academic clients high quality RNA-seq data, but we also do so with the highest affordability and shortest turnaround times on the market.
MERCURIUS™
By leveraging BRB-seq, we not only provide to industrial and academic clients high quality RNA-seq data, but we also do so with the highest affordability and shortest turnaround times on the market.


The MERCURIUS™ Total Blood BRB-seq service offers a convenient and streamlined solution for human blood transcriptomics projects. We have expertise with different types of RNA purification from blood samples and we have specialised in high-throughput RNA extraction from PaxGene tubes.
Customers can therefore either send us directly their human blood samples or perform RNA extraction in-house and send us purified RNA samples. Upon sample reception, we always perform incoming QC before launching our Total Blood BRB-seq pipeline. During the process, we always keep clients informed at defined checkpoint so that we can decide together how to best proceed to the next steps.
Next-generation sequencing and data preprocessing (including alignment to the genome) are part of our standard service as well. As a result, we provide our clients raw data, sequencing and alignment reports, and gene count matrices which can be used for downstream gene expression analysis.


Step 1
Step 2
(Nanodrop, Fragment Analyzer)
1 week
Step 3
2 days
Step 4
(Nanodrop and Fragment Analyzer)
1 week
Step 5
1 week
Step 6
Step 7
For use with other species’ blood samples, please contact us at info@alitheagenomics.com to discuss compatibility.
In addition to the total RNA amount, 10-100 ng, it is important that the samples contain RNA of high integrity (RIN > =6) and are devoid of contaminants (Nanodrop A260/A230 between 1.8 and 2.2).
Total BRB-seq is a full-length total RNA sequencing method. We therefore normally recommend sequencing 2 to 10 million reads for each sample, which enables the reliable and unbiased detection of most of the genes.
As part of our standard service pipeline, we align the generated data to the genome of choice, provide a detailed report on the alignment and gene counting statistics and, finally, provide ready-to-use gene count matrices for downstream analysis.
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