title: DNA seq of microbial community: xylose fermenting
design: DNA sequencing was performed using an Illumina MiSeq Sequencer (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA), with MiSeq Reagent Kit v3 (2 x 300 bp read length). The Illumina Nextera XT DNA sample preparation kit was used for DNA library preparation. After sequencing, BBDuk (BBTOOLS version 37.17, DOE Joint Genome Institute) was employed for quality-trimming, adapter removal and contaminant-filtering of paired-end sequencing reads.