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Era7 V4V6 Taxonomic Profiling Service

Sep 23, 2019

Spanish-based Era7 has launched its V4V6 taxonomic profiling service for amplicon analysis. According to the firm, the approach uses optimal primers located in 16S regions highly conserved in bacteria and archaea. Using 300-cycle Illumina reagents, the approach sequences V4 and V6 variable regions and their flanking sequences. Era7 said that it has designed the primers to cover all sequences included in its 16SDB7 database. 

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