9 datasets found

Comparison of different sample types using different primers and platforms

In industrialized countries, non-communicable diseases have been increasing in prevalence since the middle of the 20th century. While the causal mechanisms remain poorly...

The American Gut project is the largest crowdsourced citizen science project to date. Fecal, oral, skin, and other body site samples collected from thousands of participants...

Comparison of different sample types using different primers and platforms

In this study, we compared the axillary microbiota profiles of Parkinson's disease patients with different cognitive impairment stages with healthy controls to assess whether...

MG_baby timeseries

This study characterized the diversity of Candida present in patients with candidemia, comparing bloodstream isolates to those found at other body sites. We carried out whole...

Conventional wisdom holds that PCR amplification for sequencing should employ pooled replicate reactions to reduce bias due to jackpot effects and chimera formation. However,...

A comparison of non-targeted (shotgun metagenomics) sequencing methods and targeted amplicon methods for the characterization of ancient human oral microbiomes.