# Illumina Infectious Disease and Microbiology Software

Infectious Disease and Microbiology software include powerful bioinformatics tools to analyze NGS data ranging from single microbial genomes to complex microbial communities of thousands of viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. This comprehensive secondary analysis suite of tools supports target specific workflows such as amplicon and hybrid capture enrichment sequencing, to generalized microbiology methods like small WGS, shotgun sequencing, or 16S Amplicon. All tools are available on BaseSpace, with some available on On-board select Illumina Sequencers.

Click the links below to learn more about our currently-available infectious disease software products:


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