NGD Infection Prevention Launches the NGD200: The First Automated Bacterial Sample Preparation System Purpose-Built for the Hospital Microbiology Lab

Now supporting both Illumina short-read and Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing platforms, the NGD200 is the industry’s first to enable WGS-based hospital transmission detection. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 8, 2026 — NGD Infection Prevention announced today that its automated sequence-based infection transmission detection system is now compatible with Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing. The automation, throughput and simplicity of use of the NGD200 sample preparation robotic system and NGD’s integrated automated bioinformatics are now all available for Nanopore sequencing.