Figure 1

Fold change differences between degraded brain and pooled reference RNA samples show greater similarity to intact RNA in profiling by DASL- (right column) than by IVT-based (left column) approach. Scatterplots depicting unnormalized log2 fold change [Log2(Brain/Pooled)] of detected intensity values between intact brain and pooled reference RNA samples, and correlations (R²) with artificially degraded brain and pooled reference RNA samples at 10 min (A), 30 min (B) and 60 min (C) are shown. For example, the log fold change difference between brain and pooled RNA heated for 60 minutes was correlated with the intact RNA R² = 0.039 using the IVT-based approach, but R² = 0.272 using the DASL-based approach. B, brain reference RNA; P, pooled reference RNA; 0, intact; 10, heated at 95°C for 10 min; 30, heated at 95°C for 30 min; 60, heated at 95°C for 60 min.