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Storify on nucleic acid extraction methods

Let’s face it. There are a lot of different ways to skin a microbe, and get the DNA and RNA out for whatever purposes you might deem necessary or useful. If you ask one or two people you’ll get one or two answers. What if you ask more than a thousand? Here is some insightful crowd-sourced feedback from Twitter on favorite and least-favorite methods of nucleic acid extraction, and we’ve done our best to include references with real comparative data, protocols, and applications:
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-jct

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Storify on microbial genome sequencing in 2014

Technology is improving by leaps and bounds. With the current trends of massive, ultra-high-sequencing-coverage-combined-with-state-of-the-art-computational-binning-algorithms supported metagenomic assemblies and lasertweezer/microfluidics-enhanced, flow-cytometry based, MDA-powered single-cell genomics churning out incredible insights into the world of uncultivated microbes, it’s important to return, every once in a while, to the humble pursuit of good old-fashioned genome sequencing of simple, pure culture microbes. Here is a storify on just this from a recent Twitter exchange:
[View the story “Microbial genome sequencing in 2014” on Storify]

-jct