A flexible and economical barcoding approach for highly multiplexed amplicon sequencing of diverse target genes.

ABSTRACT: High throughput sequencing of phylogenetic and functional gene amplicons provides tremendous insight into the structure and functional potential of complex microbial communities. Here, we introduce a highly adaptable and economical PCR approach to barcoding and pooling libraries of numerous target genes. In this approach, we replace gene- and sequencing platform-specific fusion primers with general, interchangeable barcoding primers, enabling nearly limitless customized barcode-primer combinations. Compared to barcoding with long fusion primers, our multiple-target gene approach is more economical because it overall requires lower number of primers and is based on short primers with generally lower synthesis and purification costs. To highlight our approach, we pooled over 900 different sm

SUBMITTER: Herbold CW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503924 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature