Reagent contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses
Susannah Salter, Michael J Cox, Elena M Turek, Szymon T Calus, William O Cookson, Miriam F Moffatt, Paul Turner, Julian Parkhill, Nick Loman, Alan W Walker
This study shows that reagent contamination affects sequence-based microbiome analyses, especially in low biomass samples, and provides mitigation strategies.
bioRxiv · Jul 16, 2014Molecular Biology