PCR dependent biases could significantly affect quantitative estimation of plant mix composition

Valeriia Kaptelova1, Maria Logacheva2, Anna Speranskaya3, Denis Omelchenko4, Anna Fedotova5, Anastasia Krinitsina6, Andrey Ayginin7, Kamil Khafizov8, Elena Korneenko9, Andrei Samoilov101Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia, valeriia.kaptelova@gmail.com2Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia, maria.log@gmail.com3Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia, hanna.s.939@gmail.com4Institute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia, omdeno@gmail.com5Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia, mikrobiomsu@list.ru6Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, ankrina@gmail.com7FSBI “Center of Strategic Planning” of the Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russia, ayginin75@gmail.com8FSBI “Center of Strategic Planning” of the Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russia, kkhafizov@gmail.com9Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia, lennatta@yandex.ru10Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia, andrei.samoilov@gmail.com Metagenomic analysis using high-throughput sequencing is an intensively developing approach nowadays. One of its problems is the adequate quantification of components in metagenomic samples.

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