Petra Zimmermann (@drpetzi.bsky.social)

Great news for microbiome research. Stool samples can be stored in household freezers for up to six months without significant degradation or changes in microbial composition. This will make large-scale citizen science projects much easier. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Evaluating stool microbiome integrity after domestic freezer storage using whole-metagenome sequencing, genome assembly, and antimicrobial resistance gene analysis | Microbiology Spectrum Most prior studies on sample storage have relied on amplicon sequencing, which is less applicable to metagenome sequencing—given considerations of contig quality and functional gene detection—and less... https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02278-24?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed