High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies for water and wastewater analysis Journal Articles

abstract

• Conventional microbiological water monitoring uses culture-dependent techniques to screen indicator microbial species such as Escherichia coli and fecal coliforms. With high-throughput, second-generation sequencing technologies becoming less expensive, water quality monitoring programs can now leverage the massively parallel nature of second-generation sequencing technologies for batch sample processing to simultaneously obtain compositional and functional information of culturable and as yet uncultured microbial organisms. This review provides an introduction to the technical capabilities and considerations necessary for the use of second-generation sequencing technologies, specifically 16S rDNA amplicon and whole-metagenome sequencing, to investigate the composition and functional potential of microbiomes found in water and wastewater systems.

authors

• Chan, Alexander WY
• Naphtali, James
• Schellhorn, Herbert

status

• published 

publication date

• December 2019

has subject area

• Bacteria (MeSH)
• DNA, Bacterial (MeSH)
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing (MeSH)
• Microbiology (Science Metrix)
• Wastewater (MeSH)
• Water Microbiology (MeSH)

published in

• Science Progress  Journal

keywords

• 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing
• Bacteria
• DNA, Bacterial
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Second-generation sequencing
• Wastewater
• Water Microbiology
• bioinformatics
• metagenomics
• microbial communities
• microbiome
• wastewater
• water quality monitoring
• whole-metagenome sequencing

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0036850419881855

start page

• 351

end page

• 376

volume

• 102

issue

• 4