synDNA—a Synthetic DNA Spike-in Method for Absolute Quantification of Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing
ABSTRACT Microbiome studies have the common goal of determining which microbial taxa are present, respond to specific conditions, or promote phenotypic changes in the host. Most of these studies rely on relative abundance measurements to drive conclusions. Inherent limitations of relative values are...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2022-12-01
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Series: | mSystems |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00447-22 |