What you receive
- Assay and sample-metadata review
- Quality control and contamination assessment plan
- Taxonomic profiling or assembly strategy
- Diversity analysis appropriate to design
- Reproducible workflow and interpretation notes
Research & bioinformatics
Unsure which microbiome workflow fits your samples?
Pay only after you receive the analysis.
Payment is due after delivery of the agreed analysis.
Amplicon profiling and shotgun metagenomics answer different questions. We first review assay type, controls, metadata and reference coverage.
Metagenomics analysis services
How the work happens
- Review your question and inputs without collecting confidential files in the inquiry form.
- Agree methods, deliverables, compute, revisions and acceptance checks in writing.
- After feasibility is confirmed, run the agreed workflow with recorded versions and input provenance.
- Review outputs, explain limitations and hand over agreed materials.
Feasibility comes first.
Describe your assay, inputs and study design. Supported methods, tools and delivery capacity are confirmed during review; the items below are possible scope elements, not a commitment to accept every dataset.
Scope before a price.
A focused review, complete analytical workflow and custom computational project have different requirements. Sample count, assay, reference quality, compute, urgency and interpretation affect the scope. Request an itemized quote; prices and timelines are agreed after assessment.
Analysis cannot guarantee publication, statistical significance or biological validation.
Explore the methods.
The MD_Metagenome repository provides source-level context. Published files are not a claim of a client’s endorsement or permission for reuse. See our methods and project index for evidence and limitations.
Common questions
Can I inquire before my data are ready?
Yes. Choose your current stage and describe the study question. Feasibility and planning can be scoped separately.
Do I need to upload my dataset?
No. Do not send confidential or participant data through the inquiry form. Any transfer is agreed through an appropriate secure route.
What affects cost and turnaround?
Data quality and scale, study design, reference resources, compute, deliverables and revisions. We confirm an agreed scope rather than promising a fixed deadline from a short form.
You do the research. We help your data speak.
How does microbial composition differ across your samples?
Bring these inputs to scoping
- State whether inputs are marker-gene amplicons or shotgun reads; provide sample type, read layout and sequencing information.
- Provide sample metadata, groups, repeated measures, extraction batches and available negative or positive controls.
- For amplicons, include target region and primers. For shotgun requests, discuss host reads, reference coverage and whether profiling or assembly is appropriate.
Prerequisites and interpretation limits
Taxonomic resolution depends on assay and references. Relative abundance is not an absolute cell count. Contamination can dominate low-biomass samples; missing controls constrain interpretation. Functional inference and direct measurement are distinct.
When do I pay?
You pay only after you receive the agreed analysis. Deliverables and pricing are agreed before work begins.