| NGS | Next generation sequencing |
| SMS | Single-molecule sequencing |
| GC | Guanine-cytosine |
| PacBio | Pacific Biosciences |
| ONT | Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
| rRNA | Ribosomal ribonucleic acid |
| WMS | Whole metagenome sequencing |
| AMR | Antimicrobial resistance |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |