Figure 1From: Characterizing the genetic basis of bacterial phenotypes using genome-wide association studies: a new direction for bacteriologyGrowth in the cumulative number of next-generation sequencing runs in public databases for three important bacterial pathogens, Staphylococcus aureus , Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pneumoniae . The data were acquired by querying the National Center for Biotechnology Information Short Read Archive database and excluding datasets linked to RNA-seq experiments.Back to article page