Performing skin microbiome research: a method to the madness

HH Kong, B Andersson, T Clavel, JE Common… - Journal of Investigative …, 2017 - Elsevier
Growing interest in microbial contributions to human health and disease has increasingly
led investigators to examine the microbiome in both healthy skin and cutaneous disorders …

Metagenomic assembly through the lens of validation: recent advances in assessing and improving the quality of genomes assembled from metagenomes

ND Olson, TJ Treangen, CM Hill… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Metagenomic samples are snapshots of complex ecosystems at work. They comprise
hundreds of known and unknown species, contain multiple strain variants and vary greatly …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment.

K Bruce, RC Blackman, SJ Bourlat, M Hellström… - 2021 - repository.oceanbestpractices.org
This book represents a synthesis of knowledge and best practice in the field of DNA-based
biomonitoring at the time of writing. It has been written with end-users of molecular tools in …

Impact of DNA extraction method and targeted 16S-rRNA hypervariable region on oral microbiota profiling

F Teng, SS Darveekaran Nair, P Zhu, S Li, S Huang… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Amplification and sequencing of 16S amplicons are widely used for profiling the structure of
oral microbiota. However, it remains not clear whether and to what degree DNA extraction …

Effect of DNA extraction methods and sampling techniques on the apparent structure of cow and sheep rumen microbial communities

G Henderson, F Cox, S Kittelmann, VH Miri, M Zethof… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Molecular microbial ecology techniques are widely used to study the composition of the
rumen microbiota and to increase understanding of the roles they play. Therefore, sampling …

Evaluating the impact of DNA extraction method on the representation of human oral bacterial and fungal communities

A Vesty, K Biswas, MW Taylor, K Gear, RG Douglas - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The application of high-throughput, next-generation sequencing technologies has greatly
improved our understanding of the human oral microbiome. While deciphering this diverse …

Quantification of DNA through the NanoDrop spectrophotometer: methodological validation using standard reference material and Sprague Dawley rat and human …

AM García-Alegría, I Anduro-Corona… - … journal of analytical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to validate an analytical method to determine DNA concentration using
standard reference material (NIST SRM 2372) and Sprague Dawley rat and human DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Mu-DNA: a modular universal DNA extraction method adaptable for a wide range of sample types

GS Sellers, C Di Muri, A Gómez… - Metabarcoding and …, 2018 - mbmg.pensoft.net
Efficient DNA extraction is fundamental to molecular studies. However, commercial kits are
expensive when a large number of samples need to be processed. Here we present a …

Analysis and correction of compositional bias in sparse sequencing count data

MS Kumar, EV Slud, K Okrah, SC Hicks, S Hannenhalli… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Count data derived from high-throughput deoxy-ribonucliec acid (DNA)
sequencing is frequently used in quantitative molecular assays. Due to properties inherent …

Benchmarking DNA isolation methods for marine metagenomics

A Demkina, D Slonova, V Mamontov, O Konovalova… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Metagenomics is a powerful tool to study marine microbial communities. However, obtaining
high-quality environmental DNA suitable for downstream sequencing applications is a …