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Commentary: The Future of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Public Health and the Clinic

Author(s) -

Marc W. Allard

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01082-16

Subject(s) - whole genome sequencing , genomics , public health , data science , dna sequencing , computational biology , clinical microbiology , genome , biology , medicine , genetics , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , nursing

An American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference titled the Conference on Rapid Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines for Enhanced Molecular Epidemiological Investigation of Pathogens provided a venue for discussing how technologies surrounding whole-genome sequencing (WGS) are advancing microbiology. Several applications in microbial taxonomy, microbial forensics, and genomics for public health pathogen surveillance were presented at the meeting and are reviewed. All of these studies document that WGS is revolutionizing applications in microbiology and that the impact of these technologies will be profound. ASM is providing support mechanisms to promote discussions of WGS techniques to foster applications and interpretations.

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