Insights into all phenotypic features
Next to microbial quantification using 16S sequencing, GenomeScan provides full microbial genome analysis. This provides you insight into all genotypic features or other variable characteristics.
Profiling of whole microbial genomes leads to a more detailed taxonomic classification of all bacteria and other microorganisms in your sample. You can make the distinction up to species and subspecies level when the total DNA is analyzed instead of solely the V4 region of the 16S ribosomal gene.
At GenomeScan we can offer the choice between short (Illumina) and long-read (PacBio) sequencing. Illumina sequencing instruments reads short ~150 bp fragments, which allows for fast and high throughput analysis. The PacBio Sequel sequences long stretches of DNA, up to 60 kb. Human or other eukaryotic DNA can be selectively removed before bacterial full genome profiling. Our scientists have designed a hybridization capture method to remove methylated DNA residues, which efficiently depletes the host DNA.
