Microbial community standards
The field of microbiomics and metagenomic research has been one of the fastest growing fields in the past couple of years. With the use of next-generation sequencing, microbial composition profiling techniques are becoming routine in microbiomics research. However, these analytical techniques can suffer from significant bias from collection to analysis.
Cambridge Bioscience offers standards from Zymo Research who were the first to release standards for assessing bias in any microbiomics workflow.
Detecting bias in the microbiomic workflow
Standards available
ZymoBIOMICS™ standards |
Microbial Community Standard |
Microbial Community Standard II |
Spike in control |
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Formats
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Microbial cell
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Isolated DNA
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Microbial cells
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Isolated DNA
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High microbial load
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Low microbial load
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Detect bias in
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Complete workflow and DNA extraction
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Library prep and sequencing
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Complete workflow and DNA extraction
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Library prep and sequencing
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Complete workflow and DNA extraction
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Complete workflow and DNA extraction
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Recommended use
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General benchmarking and microbiome profiling positive control
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Assess detection limit and sensitivity
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Absolute quantification of high bacterial load samples e.g. faeces
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Absolute quantification of low bacterial load samples e.g. sputum
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For long read library prep and sequencing, a high molecular weight DNA standard is available. This isolated DNA standard can be used as a positive control for general benchmarking and microbiome profiling.
Microbiomic and metagenomic portfolio
We offer a comprehensive solution for microbiomic and metagenomic research from collection to analyses.