Amplicon Sequencing Services

Amplicon sequencing is based on NGS technology or PacBio SMRT sequencing. The ultra-deep sequencing of amplicons (PCR products) allows efficient variant identification and characterization. This technique has a wide range of applications, including 16S/18S/ITS gene sequencing, SNP genotyping, CRISPR sequencing, somatic/complex variant discovery, antibody screening sequencing, immune repertoire sequencing, et al.

Whether you would like to detect the diversity of microbial communities or discover rare somatic mutations in complex samples. CD Genomics could provide professional, cost-efficient and high-speed amplicon sequencing services to meet your project requirements.

Key Features and Advantages

• Providing high-sensitive detection levels through ultra-deep sequencing
• Achieving high coverage by sequencing hundreds of thousands of amplicons per reaction
• Cost-efficient and fast turnaround time
• Microbial culture is not necessary
• Wide range of amplicons from 100 bp to 10 kb

Sample Types

Purified or unpurified PCR products, fragmented DNA, gDNA, restriction digested material, and plasmids.

Sequencing Workflow

Fig.1 Sequencing workflow.

Sequencing strategies CD genomics recommended

Table 1. Strategies for amplicon sequencing.

Information analysis process

For diversity detection

• Data quality control
• OTU clustering
• Alpha Diversity (Sample complexity analysis)
• Beta Diversity (Multi-sample comparative analysis, PCoA/PCA/NMDS/Simper)
• Analysis of species differences between groups (T-test/Metastat/LEfSe)
• Analysis of community structure differences between groups (Anosim/MRPP/Adonis/Amova)
• Correlation analysis of environmental factors (Spearman/Mantel test/CCA/RDA/dbRDA/VPA)
• Network analysis
• Function prediction (PICRUSt/FAPROTAX/Tax4fun/FunGuild)
• Advanced analysis (enterotype analysis/ Bayesian analysis)

For variant identification

Fig.2 Data analysis for variant identification.

References

1. Betge J, Kerr G, Miersch T, et al. 2015. Amplicon sequencing of colorectal cancer: variant calling in frozen and formalin-fixed samples. Plos One 10:e0127146.
2. Ison SA, Delannoy S, Bugarel M, et al. 2016. Targeted amplicon sequencing for single-nucleotide-polymorphism genotyping of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli O26:H11 cattle strains via a high-throughput library preparation technique. Appl Environ Microbiol 82:640-649.