Metabarcoding
Metabarcoding is a technique of species identification using DNA/RNA from several different organisms can be extracted from either bulk samples or environmental samples. DNA collected from environmental samples is used for environmental DNA analysis. eDNA includes DNA analysis using metabarcoding methods to assess the biodiversity of environmental samples.
Barcoding and Metabarcoding
The Difference of
The main difference between barcoding and metabarcoding is that metabarcoding does not focus on one specific organism, but instead aims to determine species composition within a sample. Differences in the standard methods for DNA barcoding and metabarcoding. While DNA barcoding focuses on a specific species, metabarcoding examines whole communities.
Application of Metabarcoding
Metabarcoding can be used to reconstruct ancient ecosystems from DNA found throughout the world, to explore the interconnectness between plants and pollinators, to assess diet without need for feeding observation or stomach flushing, to detect invasive species before they could possibly be detected via traditional means, to determine community responses to pollution, and even to assess air quality and its implications for human health.
We Identify
Metabarcoding Workflow
DNA
Extraction
Collection Samples
DNA
Amplification
NGS
Sequencing
Bioinformatics
Analysis
Taxonomic
Assignment
Sample
Collection
Customer needs to send a bulk samples or environmental samples. The quality of DNA in the sample influences the results of our analysis, for this reason all samples should be stored frozen or dry (especially water samples is using a membrane filter should be stored in an appropriate medium).
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