Reference WGS collection

The WG has been established by the European Commission with the aim to promote the use of NGS across the EURLs' networks, build NGS capacity within the EU and ensure liaison with the work of the EURLs and the work of EFSA and ECDC on the NGS mandate sent by the Commission. The WG includes all the EURLs operating in the field of the microbiological contamination of food and feed and this document represents a deliverable of the WG and is meant to be diffused to all the respective networks of NRLs. In the framework of the activities of the Inter-EURLs working group on Next Generation Sequencing, a reference genomes’ collection useful for the validation and benchmarking of bioinformatics was compiled. The sequences of interest among those listed can be requested from the EURLs of the pathogen of interest.