Recently Life Technologies and the German National Consulting Laboratory for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) at the Institute of Hygiene, University Hospital Muenster deposited a genome assembly of Escherichia coli LB226692 into Genbank. The WGS project and sequences can be found here.

Here is our initial look at the E. coli sequencing data produced on the Ion Torrent from BGI. With a short sequencing time, 2-3 hours, this is a compelling platform to quickly sequence and analyze outbreaks such as the one current happening in the EU.

Data was accessed via FTP and 5 fastq files were obtained with the following data: