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Even though microbial ecosystems have an enormous diversity, and microbial communities have great application potential, fundamental and applied microbial research have been focused on a very limited number of isolated single strains. This is because many microorganisms require specific culture conditions or depend on symbiotic interactions for growth and, therefore, are difficult to study. Consequently, the majority of microbial diversity remains uncultured and poorly characterized. This means that we have yet to discover the major fraction of the microbial potential available in nature.
BaseClear now offers culturomics solutions to get access to a greater percentage of microbial potential. Our culturomics solution is a high-scale culture technique with the aim to discover novel microbial strains and their physiological and metabolic properties in samples obtained from, for example, extreme environments. Culturomics will help to mine and discover new antimicrobial agents, enzymes or bioactive compounds.
BaseClear offers unique solutions for research on complex microbial samples to generate pure cultures at high-scale and with high efficiency. We offer a high-throughput cultivation facility combined with NGS which enables identification and characterization of isolated strains. BaseClear can unravel microbial life by using, for example, the following variations during culturing;
Culturomics as complementary method to metagenomics
Culturomics can be used as a complementary technique to metagenome analysis. Metagenome analysis provides genetic information about the abundant microorganisms present in a complex microbial consortium . Due to the challenges to identify the unknown content of microbial communities and low abundant species by metagenomics, culturomics provides some of the missing gaps with the added advantage of enabling to better understand physiological, metabolic, ecological roles and potential industrial applications of the generated cultures.