Background Species-level genetic characterization of complex bacterial communities has
important clinical applications in both diagnosis and treatment. Amplicon sequencing of the …

Demands for faster and more accurate methods to analyze microbial communities from
natural and clinical samples have been increasing in the medical and healthcare industry …

Nanopore sequencing is a promising technology used for 16S rRNA gene amplicon
sequencing as it can provide full-length 16S reads and has a low up-front cost that allows …

Background: Profiling the microbiome of low-biomass samples is challenging for
metagenomics since these samples are prone to contain DNA from other sources (eg host or …

Rapid identification of bacterial pathogens is crucial for appropriate and adequate antibiotic
treatment, which significantly improves patient outcomes. 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene …

Abstract MinION (Oxford Nanopore Technologies), a portable nanopore sequencer, was
introduced in 2014 as a new DNA sequencing technology. MinION is now widely used …

High-throughput molecular technologies can profile microbial communities at high
resolution even in complex environments like the intestinal microbiota. Recent …

Background The miniaturised and portable DNA sequencer MinION™ has been released to
the scientific community within the framework of an early access programme to evaluate its …

Abstract 16S ribosomal RNA-based analysis is the established standard for elucidating the
composition of microbial communities. While short-read 16S rRNA analyses are largely …

The miniaturized and portable DNA sequencer MinION™ has demonstrated great potential
in different analyses such as genome-wide sequencing, pathogen outbreak detection and …