Wastewater-based Microbial Sequencing Package
The MGI Wastewater-based Microbial Sequencing Package delivers a comprehensive solution for wastewater surveillance, powered by MGI’s proprietary reagents, instruments and analysis software. This package enables rapid, accurate identification of pathogens in wastewater, supporting public health efforts such as infectious disease monitoring, outbreak investigations and evaluating disease control measures. It provides essential tools for the development, implementation, and assessment of public health policies.
Components
All-in-One Solution
Covers the full workflow: sampling, extraction, library prep, sequencing, and analysis.
Automation Friendly
Supports automated sampling, library prep, and data analysis to reduce manual work.
AMR Gene Detection
Built-in ARGs-OAP database for standardized antimicrobial resistance analysis.
Broad Applications
Supports targeted and metagenomic sequencing to detect known and novel pathogens.
Performance Parameters
| COVID-19 Targeted | Metagenomic | |
|---|---|---|
| Sample Type | Wastewater samples collected from wastewater treatment plants, medical institutions, aircraft, livestock farms and agricultural markets. | |
| Sequencing Platform | G99 | G99 / T7 |
| Read Length | SE100 | PE150 |
| Data Volume | 5M reads | 34M reads |
| Sample Throughput | 16 samples / FC | 2 samples / G99 FC 170 samples / T7 FC |
| Software | metargetCOVID | PFI |
Workflow
Publication list
- W. Ahmed, et al., Detection of the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 in aircraft wastewater, Science of the Total Environment, 2021.
- Jianhua Guo, et al., Wastewater tiling amplicon sequencing in sentinel sites reveals longitudinal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants prevalence, Water Research X, 2024.
- Anping Peng, et al., Genomic analysis and antibiotic resistance of a multidrug-resistant bacterium isolated from pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plant sludge, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2025.
- Joao Carneiro, et al., Mapping human pathogens in wastewater using a metatranscriptomic approach, Environmental Research, 2023.
- Soichiro Tamai, et al., Genetic diversity of dissolved free extracellular DNA compared to intracellular DNA in wastewater treatment plants, Science of The Total Environment, 2025.
- Yusuke Ota, et al., Metatranscriptomic Analysis Reveals Actively Expressed Antimicrobial-Resistant Genes and Their Hosts in Hospital Wastewater, Antibiotics, 2024.
- Kun Yang, et al., Enhanced wastewater surveillance of respiratory viruses: Unraveling partitioning behavior and demixing co-circulating lineages, Environment International, 2025.
- Tailored wastewater surveillance framework uncovered the epidemics of key pathogens in a northwestern city of China, Science of The Total Environment, 2024.
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