The Swiss NGS clinical virology community therefore decided to conduct a RT in 2018 ,
that the algorithms had a stronger impact on the overall performance than the choice of the reference database .
The Swiss NGS clinical virology community therefore decided to conduct a RT in 2018 , in order to benchmark current metagenomic workflows used at Swiss clinical virology laboratories , and thereby contribute to the definition of common best practices .
We observed that the algorithms had a stronger impact on the overall performance than the choice of the reference database .