Instrument: Automated DNA Sequencer

Instrument Short Name: Automated Sequencer
Instrument Description:

General term for a laboratory instrument used for deciphering the order of bases in a strand of DNA. Sanger sequencers detect fluorescence from different dyes that are used to identify the A, C, G, and T extension reactions. Contemporary or Pyrosequencer methods are based on detecting the activity of DNA polymerase (a DNA synthesizing enzyme) with another chemoluminescent enzyme. Essentially, the method allows sequencing of a single strand of DNA by synthesizing the complementary strand along it, one base pair at a time, and detecting which base was actually added at each step.

PI supplied instrument name: Illumina MiSeq
Dataset-specific description

Concentrated extracts were cleaned with the CleanAll DNA/RNA Clean Up and Concentration Kit (Norgen Biotek Corp, Thorold, Canada) and eluted in 20-50 μl of PCR-grade water. Sequencing of the V1-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene was performed by Research and Testing Laboratory (Lubbock, TX, USA) using the forward primer 28F (5′- GAG TTT GAT CNT GGC TCA G -3′) and reverse primer 388R (5’- TGC TGC CTC CCG TAG GAG T -3’) for Bacteria using 2 x 300 bp kits on the Illumina MiSeq platform.