Evaluation and Validation of a Reproducible mNGS Workflow for Gut Microbiome Analysis

This study addresses the challenge of technical variability in gut metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) by developing and evaluating a practical workflow. The researchers compared three commercial preservation buffers, identifying PBB as having the highest fidelity to the original microbiome and PBC as the most robust against community disturbance. Additionally, they introduced a cost-effective, self-prepared inhibitor removal buffer that showed strong correlation with manual extraction methods, enhancing reproducibility in gut microbiome analysis.

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