Those who do DNA metabarcoding for their projects know that you do months of painstakingly strict lab procedures with the constant worry that contamination or a wrong step will derail your project. DNA is invisible to us until we get to the gel electrolysis stage to visualize if our process worked. A huge sigh of relief can finally be let out when I can see my DNA fragment separating based on the correct base pair size. But this is only one 96-well plate with 16 more to go….
