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Loop Genomics Microbiome Sequencing Sample Prep Kits

May 29, 2019

Loop Genomics has launched four new sample preparation kits for use on Illumina sequencers to help identify the presence and relative abundance of organisms in the human microbiome. 

The kits include: a low biomass phased V1-V9 full-length 16S kit with picogram input amounts and zero human DNA background; a phased 18S-ITS1-ITS2 long-read solution for fungal Mycobiome profiling that interrogates an approximately 2.5-kb contiguous region of the genome; a low biomass version of the fungal profiling kit; and a 16S read-cloud kit offering V1-V9 coverage without V1-V9 phasing.

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