Traditional pathogen detection methods in public health infectious disease surveillance rely
upon the identification of agents that are already known to be associated with a particular …

Microorganisms rule the functioning of our planet and each one of the individual
macroscopic living creature. Nevertheless, microbial activity and growth status have always …

Marker-gene and metagenomic sequencing have profoundly expanded our ability to
measure biological communities. But the measurements they provide differ from the truth …

Metabarcoding has been used in a range of ecological applications such as taxonomic
assignment, dietary analysis and the analysis of environmental DNA. However, after a …

The use of relative abundance data from next generation sequencing (NGS) can lead to
misinterpretations of microbial community structures, as the increase of one taxon leads to …

Sequencing of 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons is the most common
approach for investigating environmental prokaryotic diversity, despite the known biases …

Tagging amplicons with tag sequences appended to PCR primers allow the multiplexing of
numerous samples for high-throughput sequencing (HTS). This approach is routinely used …

Plankton metabarcoding is increasingly implemented in marine ecosystem assessments
and is more cost-efficient and less time-consuming than monitoring based on microscopy …

Biodiversity metrics are critical for assessment and monitoring of ecosystems threatened by
anthropogenic stressors. Existing sorting and identification methods are too expensive and …

Dandruff is an unpleasant scalp disorder common to human populations. In this study, we
systematically investigated the intra-and inter-associations among dandruff, physiological …