RNAi Screening: Automated High‐Throughput Liquid RNAi Screening in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>

Abstract

RNAi is a powerful reverse genetics tool that has revolutionized genetic studies in model organisms. The bacteriovorous nematode Caenorhabditis elegans can be genetically manipulated by feeding it an Escherichia coli strain that expresses a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) corresponding to a C. elegans gene, which leads to systemic silencing of the gene. This unit describes protocols for performing an automated high-throughput RNAi screen utilizing a full-genome C. elegans RNAi library. The protocols employ liquid-handling robotics and 96-well plates. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.