Michel dune metagenomics
MOBIO PowerMax® Soil DNA Extraction Kit (USA) was used to extract DNA from 10 g of sand from Michel dune.  DNA was then concentrated by performing Isopropanol Precipitation. Library construction was performed using the Nextera XT kit from Illumina. After library construction, the sample was spiked with 50% PhiX and sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq v2 instrument using 150bp reads according to the manufacturer's protocol at the sequencing facility of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
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