Perform a complete Microbial Community Analysis
Being able to identify and quantify the microorganism present in a sample enables you to diagnose and take action to resolve complex problems, including microbial corrosion, biofouling, and wastewater treatment performance.
With LuminUltra’s Microbial Community Analysis (MCA) services, you get a complete overview of microbial activity within your sample. Our MCA solutions sequence marker regions present in all bacteria/archaea (16S) or Fungi (ITS), allowing for differentiation and identification of all microbes present.
This deeper level of insight enables you to better understand the cause and effect relationships certain microbes have on your processes – good or bad – as well as evaluate trends and targets for further investigation.
The LuminUltra advantage: a complete, end-to-end solution
We offer a complete solution from sample collection to result, including sample preservation and preparation, sequencing, bioinformatics and insightful reporting via our web dashboard.
LuminUltra's Sample Preservation Kit
Ensure the microbiome of the sample is preserved as sampled, ensuring the most accurate results regardless of location or time of sampling.
You can submit a variety of sample types via the Sample Preservation Kit, including solids, surface swabs, water and wastewater. Samples ship at ambient temperatures and via standard mail, with no need for cold chain shipping.
Mitigating Capital Upgrades to a Wastewater Treatment Plant using DNA Sequencing
Read how a municipality planning a capital upgrade used LuminUltra’s GeneCount® NGS service to determine the microbial community throughout the treatment system, ultimately demonstrating the planned upgrade would not increase treatment performance and could therefore be mitigated, eliminating the costly planned upgrade.
The LuminUltra difference
Customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries rely on our NGS service for their testing needs
Complete
Organisms are classified to the genus level, showing you the total picture of what’s in your system.
Quantitative
NGS run is combined with a Total Prokaryote qPCR assay allows the calculation of the concentration of each genus.
Fast
Take advantage of a best-in-class two week turn-around-time globally.
Insightful
Metabolic functions are assigned to the genera present in the sample, helping you to interpret your results via our comprehensive web dashboard.
Results interpretation with the GeneCount® Dashboard
Achieve the greatest benefit from your testing program, via the GeneCount® Dashboard ensures you achieve the greatest benefit from your testing program, including application-relevant concentrations and insights and identification of problematic organism types. With the GeneCount® Dashboard you can perform additional analyses on your sample, identify trends over time and easily share results within your organization.
Comprehensive and quantifiable
Our NGS service includes qPCR testing which quantifies the entire community of interest. This results in more valuable reporting, giving you both the relative abundance numbers of what’s in your sample as well as the actual concentration quantities in cells/mL.
Identify trends over time
With the NGS Dashboard you don’t have to worry about large, unwieldy spreadsheets. Easily manipulate your data, examine specific functional groups such as ammonia-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing, and identify trends over time.
Share and collaborate your results
We make the data easy to communicate with your internal stakeholders, including data visualizations, trend analysis and application-specific concentrations and insights.
