Identification of Infectious Agents in High-Throughput Sequencing Data Sets Is Easily Achievable Using Free, Cloud-Based Bioinformatics Platforms

摘要

It was with great interest that we read the recent publication by Brinkmann et al. (1) on the comparison of various methodologies for diagnosing viral infections in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data sets. The authors demonstrated that there is a plethora of workflows and pipelines available to analyze HTS data sets and the choice of technique can lead to different results, even with a uniform proficiency testing data set.