Quantifying and understanding well-to-well contamination in microbiome research
Published Date: 6/26/2019
Source: phys.org
When Amnon Amir, Jon Sanders, and their colleagues began using positive control samples of Vibrio fischeri in plate-based extractions as a way to validate results, they unexpectedly observed that many of the surrounding samples would also show Vibrio fischeri in their composition. They set out to design an experiment to quantify this problem, which led to the newly published paper "Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research," in mSystems.