Common Contaminants in NGS

Common Contaminants in Proteomic Data

Sample: Drosophila Melanogaster

Tag Annotation From
Tax_Id=9606 Human Human: Duraing experiments
Bos taurus Cattle Antibody or so
Q9U6Y5 Green fluorescent protein (GFP-Cter-HisTag) GFP protein Genetic inserted tags
P00761 TRYP_PIG Trypsin from pig
Keratin Common contamination from air, skin, nail, or hair
P15636 Protease I precursor Lysyl endopeptidase Achromobacter lyticus NA

Common Contaminants from DNA-seq

Microbiome from Ultrapure Water System

UPW systemLocation of sampling portsNearest neighbor(s) of main strain in BLAST search of GenBankNo. of isolates (% total)
UPWS-1Before UV254 (polishing loop)Ralstonia pickettii8 (13)
Bradyrhizobium sp.3 (5)
Flavobacterium sp.3 (5)
Burkholderia sp.4 (6.7)
Stenotrophomonas sp.5 (8.3)
Mycobacterium sp.4 (6.7)
Bacillus sp.8 (13.3)
Other25 (41)
UPWS-1DLRalstonia pickettii8 (24)
Bradyrhizobium sp.12 (36)
Pseudomonas saccharophilia4 (12)
Other9 (27)
UPWS-2After UV254, UV185, and final filters (0.1 μm)Bradyrhizobium sp.6 (60)
Other4 (40)
UPWS-3DLRalstonia pickettii4 (66)
Bradyrhizobium sp.1 (17)
Other1 (17)
UPWS-4DL and DL (return loop)Bradyrhizobium sp.4 (25)
Pseudomonas saccharophilia4 (25)
Sphingomonas sp.4 (25)
Other4 (25)
UPWS-5DLRalstonia pickettii6 (100)
UPWS-6DL, storage tank, before UV254 and after UV254Pseudomonas fluorescens6 (28)
Ralstonia pickettii5 (24)
Pseudomonas saccharophilia1 (5)
Bradyrhizobium sp.2 (10)
Sphingomonas sp.3 (14)
Other4 (19)

© Leonid A. Kulakov, et al., 2002 [1]


  1. Kulakov LA, McAlister MB, Ogden KL, Larkin MJ, O’Hanlon JF (April 2002). “Analysis of bacteria contaminating ultrapure water in industrial systems”. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 68 (4): 1548–55. doi:10.1128/AEM.68.4.1548-1555.2002. PMC 123900. PMID 11916667. ↩︎

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Posted on

2022-09-20

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2024-01-22

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