Absolute Quantification of the Living Skin Microbiome Overcomes relic DNA Bias and Reveals Site-Specific Patterns Across Individuals

Using flow-cytometry and metagenomics, coupled with an upstream pre-processing step to remove relic-DNA (DNA left behind from dead or dying cells) to determine the live population of the skin microbiome. Repository contains important feature tables, counts tables, sequencing preprocessing scripts and feature table analysis scripts.