The enzymatic shearing doesn’t look like it worked properly as the fragments are much longer than expected.

There are several possible causes for this. Accurate quantification of material and dilution upfront is a primary concern if you have an under fragmented library. Additionally, please ensure that the correct time and temperature have been used for fragmentation. If you are not using 10-100ng and this is your first use of Cell3™Target with this sample type, we recommend first trying 3 different times to find the best option for your sample type and input quantity.

Have you got EDTA in your DNA extraction elution buffer? EDTA affects the enzymatic shearing and causes poor/under fragmentation. DNA stored in EDTA buffers should be cleaned up with bead or column clean up prior to use. Ideally non EDTA elution buffers such as EB buffer (10mM Tris HCL pH 7.5-8) should be used.

Did you prepare the Enzymatic shearing reaction on ice and mix adequately before incubation? Mixing should be quite vigorous by pipetting or vortexing.

Figure.3. Fragment size distribution of unsuccessful library prepared with 10 ng of input high molecular weight genomic DNA. The presence of a tail in the long fragment size range suggests that the sample was not entirely sheared during enzymatic fragmentation. The small 160 bp peak (indicated by the arrow) represents the presence of a small amount of adapter-dimers.