Quick-DNA™ Fecal/Soil Microbe Miniprep Kit by Zymo Research

"This provided great purification of samples for our down-stream NGS applications with high number of reads and quality of reads. We were very satisfied with its performance even on sample types that it wasn't necessarily optimized for."

"This is a very easy to use kit, very easy to train students with, and very reliable results. Most importantly, excellent value when compared side by side with other kits with very similar principle."

"Ive used this product since 2017. I loved it and it has progressed since then too! I can see that researchers at Zymo are really trying to help other scientist to get the most consistent and easy approaching method to do the science. The kit has a very straight forward instruction which were easy to follow for people like me! ( i knew nothing beyond DNA and RNA... before i came to the lab to learn science). I highly recommend and the yield seems to be consistent based on treatment of the samples."

"It works with many soil types but not with many others. For the same price you can find other kits that work with more soil types."

"Great result, was very easy to use and the results were very good."

"It's great. Efficient: we can usually get 400-1000ng/uL of RNA by extraction into 50uL of ddH2O. Fairly fast: 5 hrs/24 samples, 2.5 hrs/12 samples to extract. We use DNA/RNA shield instead of RNA lysis buffer, and a vortex genie with 24 tube holder for the bead beating step."

"The product delivered high quality DNA that was then used for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. It was recommended by a collaborator and is the only DNA extraction kit I use for my dissertation."

"Easy to use kit."

"This product has saved my laboratory's life many times. The protocol is quite easy to follow, the package you receive is equipped with all you need and the precision of the results are incomparable. I used the kit many times for fecal samples and consequently I've used to isolated DNA from milk too. The results were unexpected. In summary, a great product!"

"These kits are very easy to use. Instructions are clear. Bacterial gDNA yield from feces is high. Successfully used the DNA for next generation sequencing."

"This kit is very simple to use and suitable not only for faecal samples, but also for milk. It has a high performance for isolating bacterial DNA and produces highly reproducible results. I really recommend it."

"I have used two other kits and was at the end of my robe as, after isolating DNA from rat feces, I get to PCR and nothing appears. Turns out the drug used to induce colitis in the animals has a PCR inhibitory effect. I did a clean-up and there are still traces of this PCR inhibitor carried over and no PCR results. I shifted to the Zymo kit and, from the first time, the PCR worked great. DNA was of high quality and quantity as well."

"Straight forward kit that works well."

"I used this product to make sure all PCR inhibitors were removed as recommended by a colleague. I had been using one of the top of the line products that unfortunately did not remove the PCR inhibitor which was dextran sulphate sodium salt (DSS) that I had to use in the animal model to induce colitis. This kit had extra steps that made sure the DNA was of high quality and free of any PCR inhibitors. All replica were having consistently pure and high grade DNA as tested by the absorption ratios, concentrations and gel electrophoresis for integrity of the DNA samples extracted."

"We have done 16S microbiome analysis on fecal and soil samples. The results were reproducible and the kit is easy to use."

"I think the fecal DNA mini prep kit has a satisfactory quality which allows me to extract bacterial directly from the mouse fecal and cecal content. The DNA preps are of low or no contamination with organic stuff such that it can be used directly in the downstream applications such as PCRs or deep-sequencing."

"This kit successfully extracts DNA from bird nest samples (swabs). DNA yields are low but most of the samples amplified on a regular PCR. Extraction procedure is quite simple and fast, sales people where available for help all the time. Price is close to other commercial available kits."

"The kit is easy to use, despite a little assembly, and we use the output DNA for metagenomics an PCR/marker gene sequencing with great results. Some kit to kit comparisons we've done in house with other manufacturers show this kit being quite favorable. Great customer support from Zymo as well."

"We were able achieve not only high quality fecal DNA but the kit recognizes both bacterial and fungal components that invaded the gut compare to other competitor’s kit. "

"Kit is very easy to use and the instructions are very straightforward in the manual. Got reproducible results each time I used this kit to prepare DNA from mice fecal matter. I would highly recommend this kit. "

"Kit was easy to use. I did not have a bead beater, but heating the sample at 98 degrees for 5 minutes helped get the stool into solution. Ran qRT-PCR for selected bacteria and got good results."