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.

Standards Available

Specifications	ZymoBIOMICS™ Microbial Community Standard		ZymoBIOMICS™ Microbial Community Standard II		ZymoBIOMICS™ Spike-In Control I (High Microbial Load)
Application	General benchmarking & microbiome profiling positive control		Assess detection limit & sensitivity		Absolute quantification of cell number, positive control
Detects Bias For	Complete Workflow; DNA Extraction	Library Prep; Sequencing	Complete Workflow; DNA Extraction	Library Prep; Sequencing	Complete Workflow; DNA Extraction
Catalogue Number	D6300	D6305, D6306	D6310	D6311	D6320, D6320-10
Format	Microbial Cells	Isolated DNA	Microbial Cells	Isolated DNA	Microbial Cells
No. Of Organisms	10	10	10	10	2
Distribution Of Organisms	Even	Even	Log	Log	Even

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