Last week marked two important milestones in the deadly 2011 European E. coli 0104:H4 outbreak: the Robert Koch institute announcing the end of the outbreak, and the publication of several papers from the many groups sequencing the pathogen. This included a publication in the New England Journal of Medicine by groups from the BGI, UMC Hamburg-Eppendorf, and Birmingham University acknowledging members of the crowdsourcing community and the work achieved using the genome sequence our colleagues at the BGI made available via our GigaScience database. This was our first dataset released with a Read more