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Columbia U Researchers Develop NGS-Based Spatial Metagenomics Method

Jul 22, 2019
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Andrew P. Han
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NEW YORK – Researchers have developed a new droplet-based sequencing-based method for extracting information about spatial relationships between bacteria in microbial communities. 

Led by first author Ravi Sheth and senior author Harris Want, of Columbia University Medical Center, the researchers combined next-generation sequencing with plot sampling methods used in ecology to analyze microbiomes at micrometer-scale resolution. 

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