alina have you ever done an RNA extraction in your life. please tell me how you species-selectively remove DNA from a sample.
@wanderer_jasnah Whole genome/exome kits exist where you pull down human nucleic acids. There's no reason why one could not specifically remove human nucleic acids using such an enrichment kit. But I agree, without know what kit was used, it will be challenging to tell if it was species specific.
@Ayjchan @wanderer_jasnah That’s exactly right. Also, it’s the responsibility of the authors to specify the kit. It’s completely insane that people are taking flak for citing the enrichment issue. We’d love to know what processing was performed but can’t because it’s literally a hearsay paper.
@Ayjchan @wanderer_jasnah Why would one want to specifically remove human DNA?
@Ayjchan @wanderer_jasnah Dang so maybe they did read it carefully after all?