Core Services
- Consultation and study design
- Optimal sample collection
- Sample size calculations
- Storage of clinical specimens
- Maintenance of a sample inventory
- Sample processing/aliquoting of liquids, body fluids and stool specimens
- Swab storage
- Microbial cultivation and freezing of bacterial isolates
- Nucleic acid isolation and quantification
- Next generation sequencing in-house
- 16S rRNA
- ITS (Mycobial)
- Whole genome sequencing of single isolates (WGS)
- Note: Metagenomics pipelines in development
- Data Analysis and Bioinformatics
- Standardized basic 16S rRNA analysis
- Advanced bioinformatics capabilities available by request