Rapid
production and
publication of pathogen
genome sequences during emerging
disease outbreaks provide crucial
public health information. In
resource-limited settings, especially near an outbreak epicenter, conventional
deep sequencing or
bioinformatics are often challenging. Here we successfully used metagenomic
next generation sequencing on an iSeq100 Illumina platform paired with an open-source
bioinformatics pipeline to quickly characterize Cambodias first case of COVID-2019.