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Mandatory use of mock communities highlighted by the descriptive comparison of Epi2Me 16S and EMU bioinformatic workflows for full-length 16S rRNA Nanopore sequencing.

Abstract Full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing using Oxford Nanopore Technologies has emerged as a promising approach to improve species-level resolution in microbiota studies. However, the accuracy of taxonomic assignment remains highly dependent on the bioinformatics s used to process Nanopore long-read data. Therefore, the only way to ensure a good level of certainty in obtained results is to…

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Transcriptome, glycome, and mucinome analysis reveal zinc is essential for the composition of mucus in the human goblet cell model HT-29-MTX

Scientific Reports, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66227-4 Transcriptome, glycome, and mucinome analysis reveal zinc is essential for the composition of mucus in the human…

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  • Zn deficiency alters HT-29-MTX GC transcriptome and mucin synthesis
  • MUC2 and MUC17 levels increase, complex N-glycans decrease in Zn-deficient GCs