METAGENE™ CANINE

Tailored canine gut microbiome analysis

Diversigen's MetaGene™ Canine utilizes a comprehensive canine reference database to substantially improves understanding of canine microbial community composition and function.

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Our understanding of gut microbiome composition and function depends on reference databases and how well they represent systems and their hosts. In the case of canines, using reference databases composed of mainly human-relevant microbes provides limited information, leaving a large proportion of canine gut microbiome sequences unannotated. This creates an incomplete picture of the canine microbiome. To address this, Diversigen developed MetaGene™ Canine, a specialized metagenomics service that utilizes a comprehensive canine reference database that substantially improves understanding of canine microbial community composition and function.

Our solution delivers:

  • Insights into the canine microbiome through our curated canine reference database
  • Comprehensive taxonomic and functional analysis

Comprehensive taxonomic and functional analysis

MetaGene™ Canine identifies more canine-relevant taxa and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genome (KEGG) pathways resulting in higher taxonomic and functional resolution. With over 1,500 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from canine samples annotated with the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB), MetaGene™ Canine uses a curated canine database to improve reads mapped when compared to analysis done using human-focused databases.

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