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Chapters
- 00:00Title
- 01:11Sample preparation and contaminant exclusion
- 02:10Homogenization and DNA extraction
- 04:41Sequencing library construction
- 05:48Purification of the PCR reaction
- 06:19DNA quality check and quantification, and sequencing
- 07:43Sequencing of the DNA library
- 08:02Representative results
- 09:35Closing remarks
Contamination during the genomic sequencing of microscopic organisms remains a large problem. Here, we show a method to sequence the genome of a tardigrade from a single specimen with as little as 50 pg of genomic DNA without whole genome amplification to minimize the risk of contamination.
