Bacterial DNA isolation kits and reagents are available from a variety of suppliers, designed to save the researcher much time and effort in purifying plasmid DNA or genomic DNA. These ready-to-use kits already contain all the necessary reagents and buffers needed to extract high quality starting material for downstream molecular applications. These kits, which come in spin column or magnetic-based formats, can simplify workflows in cloning, sequencing, microbiome analyses, among other applications.