Next Generation Sequencing: Chemistry, Technology and Applications

Author(s):  
Pei Hui
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 4636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Antonelli ◽  
Alfonso Esposito ◽  
Giulia Galotta ◽  
Barbara Davidde Petriaggi ◽  
Silvano Piazza ◽  
...  

Waterlogged archaeological wood (WAW) is considered a precious material, first-hand account of past civilizations. Like any organic material, it is subjected to biodegradative action of microorganisms whose activity could be particularly fast and dangerous during the phases of excavation, storage and restoration. The present work aimed to characterize the microorganisms present in WAW during these tricky periods to evaluate the biological risk it is exposed to. The bacterial and fungal communities inhabiting woods coming from two archaeological sites (Pisa and Naples) were investigated through Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS). High-throughput sequencing of extracted DNA fragments was performed using the reversible terminator-based sequencing chemistry with the Illumina MiSeq platform. The analyses revealed that the two archaeological sites showed distinct richness and biodiversity, as expected. In all the WAWs, the bacterial community harbored mainly Proteobacteria, whereas Bacteroidetes was well represented only in Naples communities and taxa belonging to the phyla Chloroflexi only in the Pisa site. Concerning the fungal community, the two sites were dominated by different phyla: Ascomycota for Naples samples and Basidiomycota for Pisa. Interestingly, most of the identified bacterial and fungal taxa have cellulolytic or ligninolytic ability. These results provide new and useful background information concerning the composition of WAW microbiota and the threat it represents for this precious material.


2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
PETER HULICK

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (05) ◽  
pp. 232-238
Author(s):  
Marcus Kleber

ZUSAMMENFASSUNGDas kolorektale Karzinom (KRK) ist einer der häufigsten malignen Tumoren in Deutschland. Einer frühzeitigen Diagnostik kommt große Bedeutung zu. Goldstandard ist hier die Koloskopie. Die aktuelle S3-Leitlinie Kolorektales Karzinom empfiehlt zum KRK-Screening den fäkalen okkulten Bluttest. Für das Monitoring von Patienten vor und nach Tumorresektion werden die Messung des Carcinoembryonalen Antigens (CEA) und der Mikrosatellitenstabilität empfohlen. Für die Auswahl der korrekten Chemotherapie scheint derzeit eine Überprüfung des Mutationsstatus, mindestens des KRAS-Gens und des BRAF-Gens, sinnvoll zu sein. Eine Reihe an neuartigen Tumormarkern befindet sich momentan in der Entwicklung, hat jedoch noch nicht die Reife für eine mögliche Anwendung in der Routinediagnostik erreicht. Den schnellsten Weg in die breite Anwendung können Next-Generation-Sequencing-basierte genetische Tests finden.


2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Schumann ◽  
J Ritter ◽  
K Zimmermann ◽  
JD Schulzke ◽  
B Siegmund ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Agarwalla ◽  
Wenya Bi ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
Shakti Ramkissoon ◽  
Steven Schumacher ◽  
...  

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