Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

• Main Authors: Susannah J. Salter, Michael J. Cox, Elena M. Turek, Szymon T. Calus, William O. Cookson, Miriam F. Moffatt, Paul Turner, Julian Parkhill, Nicholas J. Loman, Alan W. Walker
• Other Authors: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/32967
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2014 Salter et al. Background: The study of microbial communities has been revolutionised in recent years by the widespread adoption of culture independent analytical techniques such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing and metagenomics. One potential confounder of these sequence-based approaches is the pr...