What should be the minimum amount of water sample for metagenomic DNA isolation from the sample?

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Leonid Ouchanov

Why don't you try different volumes and come up with the answer yourself?

Smruti Ranjan Nayak

I am yet to do the sampling. so want to know the minimum volumes so that i dnt have to visit the sampling site repeatedly.

Mikhail K Ivanov

You have to know first the concentration of bacteria in the water of your sampling site. It may differ dramatically