Plasmid from the library was digested using SalI enzyme, and the digestion products were separated by gel electrophoresis, and cleaved backbone without 3′domain sequence was purified from gel. Seventy-five nanograms of the linear product containing the fragment and barcode was circularized using T4 DNA Ligase (NEB) 16°C overnight. The ligation product was treated with Lambda Exonuclease (NEB) and RecJF (NEB) for 16 h at 37°C (Balagurumoorthy et al. 2008 (link)). The remaining, circularized product was PCR amplified with primers containing Ion Torrent sites P1 & A. Concentration was determined by Bioanalyzer (Agilent) and sequenced on Ion Torrent using a 316 V2 chip (Thermo Fisher). Sequencing was conducted as 500-bp-long reads using an extended number of reagent flows in the 400 bp kit.