Studying metagenomics with Long Read technology offers significant advantages for understanding complex microbial communities and their functions. Metagenomics involves sequencing the genetic material of all organisms within a sample, providing insights into microbial diversity, functional potential, and interactions.

We offer two type of service to analyze your samples.

• Whole Metagenomics : Our Whole Metagenomics service provides an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of the microbial communities present in your samples. Since every project is unique, we tailor our services and protocols to best address your specific needs and biological questions. To discuss your metagenomics projects, please contact us directly support@smartlifebiosciences.com.

• Metabarcoding 16S full Length : 16S full-length metabarcode sequencing Long-Read technology enhances microbial community profiling, providing deeper insights into microbial ecology with greater efficiency and flexibility. The 16S rRNA gene is a highly conserved marker, commonly used to identify and classify bacteria in environmental samples. With Oxford Nanopore Technology, we can obtain long-read sequences, allowing for the full-length amplification of the 16S gene, rather than relying on short-read methods. This provides several key benefits:

• • Improved Accuracy: Long-read sequencing eliminates the ambiguities and errors associated with short-read assemblies, offering more accurate taxonomic identification.
  • Comprehensive Coverage: Full-length 16S rRNA sequencing provides a more complete view of microbial diversity, as it captures the entire region used for classification, enabling the detection of rare or novel species that might be missed with shorter fragments.
  • Better Resolution in Taxonomy: The ability to sequence the full-length 16S rRNA gene increases the resolution of phylogenetic analysis, allowing researchers to differentiate closely related microbial species and subspecies that may be indistinguishable with partial sequencing.

Ask SMARTLife for the Bacterial composition of your sample at species resolution level

• • Full length 16S rDNA long-read sequencing
  • Available from 1 sample to a batch of samples
  • Starting from a large variety of samples (water, soil, feces, skin, etc…)
  • Differentiation of closely related species
  • High accuracy (99.6%)
  • Comprehensive report (bacterial composition of your sample, relative proportion