Protocols

The protocols and standards are to follow globally accepted standards to support parallel comparison with the worldwide databases. The original protocols and standards include

•      Earth Microbiome Project (http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/protocols-and-standards/)
•      Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (https://www.jcvi.org/publications)
•      NIH Human Microbiome Project (https://hmpdacc.org/hmp/resources/)
•      etc.

          For education purpose, we provided some easy-to-follow protocols as below:

•       Metagenomics Extraction 
•       16S & 18S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Protocols 
•       Mothur commands -> https://www.mothur.org/wiki/Main_Page
•       Qiime commands -> http://qiime.org/scripts/