Understanding the promises and hurdles of metagenomic next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool for infectious diseases

PJ Simner, S Miller, KC Carroll - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Agnostic metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has emerged as a promising
single, universal pathogen detection method for infectious disease diagnostics. This …

[HTML][HTML] Application of next generation sequencing in laboratory medicine

Y Zhong, F Xu, J Wu, J Schubert… - Annals of laboratory …, 2021 - synapse.koreamed.org
The rapid development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, including
advances in sequencing chemistry, sequencing technologies, bioinformatics, and data …

Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids

W Gu, X Deng, M Lee, YD Sucu, S Arevalo, D Stryke… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
We developed a metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) test using cell-free DNA
from body fluids to identify pathogens. The performance of mNGS testing of 182 body fluids …

High‐throughput metagenomics for identification of pathogens in the clinical settings

N Li, Q Cai, Q Miao, Z Song, Y Fang, B Hu - Small methods, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The application of sequencing technology is shifting from research to clinical laboratories
owing to rapid technological developments and substantially reduced costs. However …

mNGS in clinical microbiology laboratories: on the road to maturity

D Han, Z Li, R Li, P Tan, R Zhang… - Critical reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) is increasingly being applied in clinical
laboratories for unbiased culture-independent diagnosis. Whether it can be a next routine …

Zika virus evolution and spread in the Americas

HC Metsky, CB Matranga, S Wohl, SF Schaffner… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Although the recent Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas and its link to birth defects
have attracted a great deal of attention,, much remains unknown about ZIKV disease …

Nanopore DNA sequencing and genome assembly on the International Space Station

SL Castro-Wallace, CY Chiu, KK John, SE Stahl… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We evaluated the performance of the MinION DNA sequencer in-flight on the International
Space Station (ISS), and benchmarked its performance off-Earth against the MinION …

Agnostic sequencing for detection of viral pathogens

NPG Gauthier, SD Chorlton, M Krajden… - Clinical microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has expanded our ability to
detect and analyze microbial genomes and has yielded novel molecular approaches for …

Targeting the 16s rRNA gene for bacterial identification in complex mixed samples: Comparative evaluation of second (illumina) and third (oxford nanopore …

R Winand, B Bogaerts, S Hoffman, L Lefevre… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rapid, accurate bacterial identification in biological samples is an important task for
microbiology laboratories, for which 16S rRNA gene Sanger sequencing of cultured isolates …

Metagenomic sequencing with spiked primer enrichment for viral diagnostics and genomic surveillance

X Deng, A Achari, S Federman, G Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS), the shotgun sequencing of RNA and
DNA from clinical samples, has proved useful for broad-spectrum pathogen detection and …