synDNA—a Synthetic DNA Spike-in Method for Absolute Quantification of Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing

Abstract

The synDNAs designed in this study enable accurate and reproducible measurements of absolute amount and fold changes of bacterial species in complex microbial communities. The method proposed here is versatile and promising as it can be applied to bacterial communities or genomic features like genes and operons, in addition to being easily adaptable by other research groups at a low cost.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Dec 20, 2022
Source ID
10.1128/msystems.00447-22

Entities

People

  • Karsten Zengler
  • Livia S Zaramela
  • Maxwell Neal
  • Megan Tjuanta
  • Oriane Moyne

Organizations

  • National Science Foundation
  • United States Army
  • United States Department of Energy
  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Microbial Pathology
  • Oncology and Biomarker-Based Cancer Detection.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology