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ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community DNA Standard

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ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community DNA Standard is a mixture of genomic DNA extracted from pure cultures of eight bacterial and two fungal strains. The DNA Standard is ideal for assessing biases and errors in processes of library preparation, sequencing, and bioinformatics analyses. It serves perfectly as a microbial standard for benchmarking the performance of microbiomics or metagenomics analyses and to serve as a control in inter-lab studies. Genomic DNA from each pure culture was extracted and quantified before mixing. The GC content of the containing genomes covers a range from 15% to 85%. The microbial standard is accurately characterized and contains negligible impurities (< 0.01%). This enables it to expose artifacts, errors and bias in microbiomics or metagenomics workflows.

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