This research highlights the utility of advanced biomass characterization in refinery wastewater treatment to understand process upsets and identify shifts within the microbial community that are contributing to changes... Read More
Microbial source tracking (MST) gives water resource managers a powerful tool to understand the source of contamination and mitigate its effects — or stop it all together.... Read More
LuminUltra’s GeneCount® Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) service takes microbial monitoring to the “next” level by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene, present in all bacteria and archaea, allowing for differentiation... Read More
What’s inside: A steel producer in Taiwan, produces wastewater that is high in organics, ammonia, solids, and other waste products. The wastewater is treated on-site using a series of... Read More
Webinar on demand Using NGS to Optimize and Troubleshoot Wastewater Treatment Systems What to expect: Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data can be difficult to interpret, and as a result, the... Read More
Metagenomics is an emerging field Metagenomics is a quickly evolving field, with new papers being published and new products and services being offered each year. Since metagenomics analysis is a relatively... Read More
A municipal wastewater treatment plant planning to carry out an expensive capital upgrade. This upgrade would improve treatment performance and bring the plant into compliance but was extremely expensive.... Read More
Ammonia removal is a key metric for assessing wastewater treatment facility performance. This is because ammonia contributes to aquatic life toxicity. Furthermore, nitrogen, along with phosphorus, is a driver... Read More
First of all, what is NGS and what does it do? Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a tool that has revolutionized many fields of study. So far DNA sequencing has... Read More
There’s no universal method for cataloging organisms or for converting sequencing data to taxonomic data, so careful examination of methodology, as well as the results, is needed when analyzing... Read More
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