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The detection and surveillance of pathogens such as respiratory viruses, sexually transmitted pathogens, adventitious agents and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria are increasingly important in healthcare settings and environmental monitoring. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of identifying and differentiating variants of concern. By applying the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to other pathogens of interest, it’s clear there’s a widespread need for the ability to target sensitive variants using next-generation sequencing (NGS) enrichment strategies and to analyze NGS data.