9. Viromics-Specific Protocols
Viromics of Faecal Samples
Teagan Brown, Mohammed Adnan Tariq, Rik Haagmans, Rebecca Ansorge, Andrea Telatin & Evelien Adriaenssens
Here we present the protocols we use at the Quadram Institute for laboratory processing of samples for viromics (viral shotgun metagenomics) using human faecal samples as an example. The use of a standardised mock community as a control and virome-specific bioinformatics analyses are included.
9. Viromics of Faecal Samples v1.0[pdf]

Quadram Institute Best Practice in Microbiome Research: Viromics-Specific Protocols v1.0 by Teagan Brown, Mohammed Adnan Tariq, Rik Haagmans, Rebecca Ansorge, Andrea Telatin & Evelien Adriaenssens is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- Introduction
- 1. Study Design Considerations
- 2. Sample Size for a Microbiome Experiment
- 3. Collection & Processing of Faecal Samples
- 4. DNA Extraction and Quality Control
- 5. 16S Illumina Library Preparation
- 6. Shotgun Metagenomic Illumina Library Preparation
- 7. Microbiome Informatics
- 8. Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data
- 9. Viromics-Specific Protocols
- 10. Mycobiome-Specific Protocols
- About the Quadram Institute

