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Title |
Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses
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Published in |
BMC Biology, November 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Susannah J Salter, Michael J Cox, Elena M Turek, Szymon T Calus, William O Cookson, Miriam F Moffatt, Paul Turner, Julian Parkhill, Nicholas J Loman, Alan W Walker |
Abstract |
The study of microbial communities has been revolutionised in recent years by the widespread adoption of culture independent analytical techniques such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing and metagenomics. One potential confounder of these sequence-based approaches is the presence of contamination in DNA extraction kits and other laboratory reagents. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 238 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 42 | 18% |
United Kingdom | 38 | 16% |
Australia | 10 | 4% |
France | 6 | 3% |
Germany | 5 | 2% |
Spain | 5 | 2% |
Denmark | 4 | 2% |
Canada | 4 | 2% |
Hong Kong | 3 | 1% |
Other | 35 | 15% |
Unknown | 86 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Scientists | 117 | 49% |
Members of the public | 113 | 47% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 2% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | <1% |
Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 2,751 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 43 | 2% |
United Kingdom | 20 | <1% |
Canada | 8 | <1% |
Germany | 7 | <1% |
Brazil | 6 | <1% |
Belgium | 4 | <1% |
South Africa | 4 | <1% |
Sweden | 4 | <1% |
France | 3 | <1% |
Other | 33 | 1% |
Unknown | 2619 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 643 | 23% |
Researcher | 556 | 20% |
Student > Master | 366 | 13% |
Student > Bachelor | 249 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 147 | 5% |
Other | 356 | 13% |
Unknown | 434 | 16% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 962 | 35% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 459 | 17% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 214 | 8% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 173 | 6% |
Environmental Science | 138 | 5% |
Other | 262 | 10% |
Unknown | 543 | 20% |