Roume, Hugo
Mondot, Stanislas
Saliou, Adrien
Le Fresne-Languille, Sophie
Doré, Joël
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Research Council (2017-AdG No. 788191)
Article History
Received: 27 February 2023
Accepted: 27 October 2023
First Online: 18 December 2023
Competing interests
: Adrien Saliou and Sophie Le Fresne-Languille declare a conflict of interest. Other authors declare that they have no competing interests. We acknowledge a link of interest for Bioaster and Biofortis that may provide microbiome analysis as a service. Yet they in no way influenced the main message of the publication that merely states that 16S rDNA-based metabarcoding approaches suffer major limitations and may very likely never be standardizable. This information aimed at the scientific community is to help promote more robust microbiome work in the future, be it by academic or by private stakeholders. It should be noted that neither of these project partners did pay for the implementation of the project. Each of these partners financed the conduct of the experiments for which it was responsible, and the project as a whole was designed, supervised and managed by the academic partner, MetaGenoPolis.