Food Authenticity Program Meeting Book (August 29, 2021)

What is a phylogenetic tree? distances

Isolates (leaves)

Relationships (internal nodes)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/tree/#!/tree/Salmonella/PDG000000002.1887/PDS000002596.30

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epidemiology - association between illness and food exposure traceback - suspected food item links back to a common source of contamination metadata the genomic data is only as good at the metadata, and is available at NCBI What is there besides a tree?

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Thanks to Maria Balkey