A lack of user friendly and automated analysis software has been cited as the major barrier to the routine use of isolate pathogen sequencing and metagenomic sequencing. Users associate QIAGEN Bioinformatics products with four characteristics: Ease of use, Comprehensiveness, Performance, and Scalability. CLC Microbial Genomics Module, an add-on to CLC Genomics Workbench and Biomedical Genomics Workbench, embraces these values and empowers microbiologists to take full advantage of whole genome or metagenomic data.