CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
August 2019—Loop Genomics has expanded its kits and services capabilities to provide researchers with ultra-high resolution microbiome sequencing solutions using long reads on Illumina sequencers. The four kits are a low biomass (e.g. human skin) 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 ultra-high resolution fungal mycobiome profiling, a low biomass version of that kit, and a 16S read-cloud kit for UMI-based microbiome quantification with V1–V9 coverage but without V1–V9 phasing.
Loop Genomics provides these kits and services to identify the presence and relative abundance of organisms in the microbiomes the kits are testing for, using unique molecular identifiers and phased long reads on Illumina sequencers.