Base calling is the process of algorithmically deciding the incorporated nucleotide from the signal intensities that are detected during sequencing process.

A period of subclinical or inapparent pathologic changes following exposure, ending with the onset of symptoms of infectious disease.

The international, transdisciplinary, and intersectoral research, knowledge, and policies for improving population health and health determinants on a planetary scale.

A food-borne disease or food-borne illness is defined as a disease, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of...

number of new cases or outbreaks of a disease that occur in a population at risk in a particular geographical area within a defined time interval.

Any person who directly handles packaged or unpackaged food, food equipment and utensils, or food contact surfaces and is therefore expected to comply with food hygiene...

A process that begins when an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate...

consist of a fixed set of conserved species specific genes. Better definition: Strain differentiation by determining the number different alleles in a predefined set of loci...

any of a variety of measures (e.g. mortality rate) that indicate the state of health of a given population. A variable susceptible to direct measurement that reflects the state...

identification of the causative agent in samples taken from the preparation or processing environment of the suspected food vehicle, or from batches of similar foodstuffs...

Refers to a replica. DNA molecules can be cloned using bacteria or viruses as hosts. A genetic clone can also refer to an organism that is a genetic copy of the original -...

The processing of personal data in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, as long as such...

Technical infrastructure to share data

are measures of a drugs minimum inhibitory concentration distribution that separate bacterial populations into those representative of a wild type population, and those with...

food (or foodstuff) that is suspected of causing human cases.

personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...

the aspect of epidemiology concerned with organizing and summarizing data regarding the persons affected (e.g., the characteristics of those who became ill), time (e.g., when...

Findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable data

Quantitative variable or qualitative factor that provides a simple and reliable means to measure achievement, to reflect the changes connected to activities, or to help assess...

A contiguous stretch of DNA sequence that is the result of assembly of multiple overlapping sequence reads into a single consensus sequence. A contig requires a complete tiling...