What is the best commercial kit to extract DNA from fungi for PacBio sequencing?

10 June 2016 1 2K Report

I need to achieve an insert size of 10Kb atleast

Hi Ruvini,

We've had great success at high quality DNA from our fungal strains using the plant kits from Qiagen. While the yield is typically low, the quality is excellent.

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