A Lot on Your Plate? Well-to-Well Contamination as an Additional Confounder in Microbiome Sequence Analyses

ABSTRACT DNA sequence-based microbiome studies can be impacted by a range of different methodological artefacts. Contamination originating from laboratory kits and reagents can lead to erroneous results, particularly in samples containing a low microbial biomass. Minich and colleagues (mSystems 4:e0...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alan W. Walker
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b9161e07949e4ce0af046491e3ecac6b
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!