An optimized approach for processing of frozen lung and lavage samples for microbiome studies

• Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rrusso@jcvi.org

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1250-3129

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• Harinder Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lauren M. Oldfield,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Replay Therapeutics, San Diego, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Alexey V. Fedulov ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AVF and NGJ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AVF and NGJ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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