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MICROBIOME
Volume 2, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/2049-2618-2-6
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- National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease of the National Institutes of Health [UH2AI083264, U19AI084044, R33AI078798, R01AI089878]
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Background: To take advantage of affordable high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies to characterize microbial community composition often requires the development of improved methods to overcome technical limitations inherent to the sequencing platforms. Sequencing low sequence diversity libraries such as 16S rRNA amplicons has been problematic on the Illumina MiSeq platform and often generates sequences of suboptimal quality. Results: Here we present an improved dual-indexing amplification and sequencing approach to assess the composition of microbial communities from clinical samples using the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene on the Illumina MiSeq platform. We introduced a 0 to 7 bp heterogeneity spacer to the index sequence that allows an equal proportion of samples to be sequenced out of phase. Conclusions: Our approach yields high quality sequence data from 16S rRNA gene amplicons using both 250 bp and 300 bp paired-end MiSeq protocols and provides a flexible and cost-effective sequencing option.
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