A robust ambient temperature collection and stabilization strategy: Enabling worldwide functional studies of the human microbiome

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Anderson, Ericka L ^a   Li, Weizhong ^a,b   Klitgord, Niels ^a   Highlander, Sarah K ^b   Dayrit, Mark ^a   Seguritan, Victor ^a   Yooseph, Shibu ^a,b   Biggs, William ^a   Venter, J Craig ^a,b   Nelson, Karen E ^a,b   Jones, Marcus B ^a  

^a Human Longevity Inc   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES; FREEZING; HUMAN; MICROFLORA; OPEN READING FRAME; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; FREEZING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OPEN READING FRAMES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 84984633507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31731     Document Type: Article

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