A comparison of short- and long-read whole genome sequencing for microbial pathogen epidemiology
Andrea M. Schiffer, Arafat Rahman, Wendy Sutton, M. L. Putnam, Alexandra J. Weisberg
This study compares short- and long-read sequencing for microbial pathogen genomics, finding that long reads provide more complete assemblies and that variant calling accuracy can be achieved with short-read pipelines when long reads are fragmented.
mSystems · Nov 12, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics