Next-generation sequencing, referred to simply as NGS, is a powerful tool for bacterial detection and microbial community analysis in a high-throughput manner. Creative Biolabs employs 16S rRNA metagenomic sequencing to support high-resolution and low-cost microbial community analysis services.

Introduction of Next-generation Sequencing

NGS allows the rapid sequencing of the base pairs in DNA or RNA samples. The basic sequencing process involves breaking down DNA/RNA into multiple pieces, adding adapters, sequencing libraries, and reassembling them to form a genomic sequence. This technique has a wide variety of applications including whole-genome sequencing, target sequencing, gene expression profiling, chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing, small RNA sequencing, epigenomic sequencing, metagenomic sequencing, and so on. In microbiome research, 16S rRNA metagenomic sequencing is considered a powerful tool for microbial identification and microbial diversity studies in large sample sets.

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