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Sample pretreatment helps remove non-target DNA before DNA sequencing
DNA sequencing has become cheaper and more accessible to even common labs over the past ten years. More importantly, more types of samples are used for sequencing to detect and understand the genomic profile of more types of species. However, some of these samples contain large amount of DNA from different organisms that may interfere … More Sample pretreatment helps remove non-target DNA before DNA sequencing