Hybridization capture reveals microbial diversity missed using current profiling methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microorganisms comprise the majority of living organisms on our planet. For many years, exploration of the composition of microbial communities has been performed through the PCR-based study of the small subunit rRNA gene due to its high conservation across the domains of life. The application of this method has resulted in the discovery of many unexpected evolutionary lineages. However, amplicon sequencing is subject to numerous biases, with some taxa being missed, and is limited by the read length of second-generation sequencing platforms, which drastically reduces the phylogenetic resolution.

Results

Here, we describe a hybridization capture strategy that allows the enrichment of 16S rRNA genes from metagenomic samples and enables an exhaustive identification a

SUBMITTER: Gasc C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5870382 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature