MinION, a portable long-read sequencer, enables rapid vaginal microbiota analysis in a clinical setting

MinION, a portable long-read sequencer, enables rapid vaginal microbiota analysis in a clinical setting

Abstract Background It has been suggested that the local microbiota in the reproductive organs is relevant to women's health and may also affect pregnancy outcomes. Analysis of partial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences generated by short-read sequencers has been used to identify vaginal a...

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Main Authors: Shinnosuke Komiya, Yoshiyuki Matsuo, So Nakagawa, Yoshiharu Morimoto, Kirill Kryukov, Hidetaka Okada, Kiichi Hirota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-03-01
Series:BMC Medical Genomics
Subjects:
16S rRNA
Bacterial vaginosis
Long-read sequencer
MinION
Nanopore
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-022-01218-8

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-022-01218-8

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