Fig. 1: Overview of study design. | Communications Biology

Fig. 1: Overview of study design.

From: Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies

Fig. 1

Samples collected from the same participant were aliquoted so that paired comparisons could be made between treated and untreated samples. For nasal samples, it was only feasible to collect 4 swabs from a participant at the same time, thus a total of 10 swabs for the untreated condition was required to allow for paired treated and untreated comparisons.

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