Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

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Are you sequencing the microbiome of your clinical sample or your DNA extraction kit? Important article: http://t.co/QtCmnozkV7 …

Goodluck molecular biologists! Your kits are contaminated. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/12/87?utm_campaign=BMC00083N

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Unfortunately, some of the very kits we use to avoid contamination issues turn out to be sources of contamination themselves.

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