date:Sep 22, 2012
entify the source of an outbreak more quickly and take corrective action (e.g. product recalls) to contain the spread of a pathogen.
She added the NGS tool can distinguish bacterial strains that differ by as little as one base pair, which are differences that appear indistinguishable by current methods.
Generate from historical collections
Illumina claim that by using MiSeq, the FDAs national and state laboratories will be able to generate whole genome sequences from historical pathogen colle