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Efficient Nucleic Acid Extraction and 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing for Bacterial Community Characterization
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A simple sequence-based filtering method for the removal of contaminants in low-biomass 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
Cristina Zubiria-Barrera1, Magdalena Stock1, Robert Neubert1
1Jena University Hospital, ZIK Septomics, Host Septomics, Albert-Einstein-Str. 10, Jena 07745, Germany.
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|September 19, 2020
Abstract:
Controlling for contaminant sequences in microbiome experiments involving low-biomass samples is a highly challenging task which still lacks of standardized protocols. Here we propose a simple sequence-based filtering method for 16S rRNA gene microbial profiling approaches, and validate its efficiency using mock community dilution series and environmental samples collected in a clinical setting.

