Metagenomic Analysis of Environmental Water Samples with the NextSeq™ 500 System

Environmental metagenomics is the study of organisms in a microbial community by analyzing the DNA present in an environmental sample. This application note describes how shotgun metagenomic sequencing was carried out using the NextSeq 500 System to characterize microbial communities in samples from a water reservoir. The NextSeq 500 desktop sequencing system provides the flexible power and simplicity you need to analyze whole genomes, exomes and transcriptomes for a large variety of applications.