Series Preface Preface Editors Contributors PART I Introduction, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics Chapter 1 Food Quality and Food Safety: An Introduction Umar Farooq, Afshan Shafi, Muhammad Shahbaz, Muhammad Zaki Khan, Khizar Hayat, Muhammad Baqir, and Mariam Iqbal Chapter 2 Foodborne Pathogens and Food-Related Microorganisms Mary Theresa, Aparna Sankaran Unni, Amala Geevarghese, Sebastain Korattiparambil Sebastian, Sunil Pareek, and Radhakrishnan Edayileveettil Krishnankutty Chapter 3 Molecular Epidemiology of Foodborne Diseases Afshan Shafi, Umar Farooq, Kashif Akram, Muhammad Zaki Khan, Zafar Hayat, and Khizar Hayat Chapter 4 Nucleic Acid-Based Molecular Techniques in Microbial Food Safety Benssan K. Varghese, V.J. Rejish Kumar, and Radhakrishnan Preetha Chapter 5 Exploring the Landscape of the Genome and Transcriptome in Microbial Food Safety Adil Hussain and Amjad Iqbal Chapter 6 Proteomics Applications in Postharvest and Food Science S. Prasanna Raghavender, C. Anoint Yochabedh, and Radhakrishnan Preetha Chapter 7 Impact of Sequencing and Bioinformatics Tools in Food Microbiology Ramachandran Chelliah, Eric Banan-Mwine Daliri, Fazle Elahi, Imran Khan, Shuai Wei, Su-Jung Yeon, Kandasamy Saravanakumar, Inamul Hasan Madar, Sumaira Miskeen, Ghazala Sultan, Marie Arockianathan, Shanmugarathinam Alagarsamy, Thirumalai Vasan, Myeong-Hyeon Wang, Usha Antony, Devarajan Thangadurai, and Deog Hwan Oh PART II Generation of Sequencing Technologies Chapter 8 Evaluation of Sequencing Technologies in Food Science Jorianne Thyeska Castro Alves, Mônica Silva de Oliveira, Gislenne Moia, Rosyely da Silva Oliveira, Ronilson Santos dos Santos, Pablo Henrique Caracciolo Gomes de Sá, and Adonney Allan de Oliveira Veras Chapter 9 First Generation–The Sanger Shotgun Approach Muhsin Jamal, Sana Raza, Sayed Muhammad Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, Saadia Andleeb, Muhammad Asif Nawaz, Sidra Pervez, Liloma Shah, and Redaina Chapter 10 Fourth Generation–In Situ Sequencing Sadhna Mishra, Arvind Kumar, Shikha Pandhi, and Dinesh Chandra Rai Chapter 11 Library Preparations and Sequencing Platform for Improving Food Safety Mahesh Pattabhiramaiah and Shanthala Mallikarjunaiah Chapter 12 Microbial Genomes: Potential Systems for WGS and NGS Debadarshee Das Mohapatra and Smaranika Pattnaik Chapter 13 Single Cell Sequencing of Microbial Species Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Wadzani Dauda Palnam, Juliana Bunmi Adetunji, Benjamin Ewa Ubi, Ayodele Eugene Ayeni, Devarajan Thangadurai, Muhammad Akram, Fahad Said Khan, Olugbenga Samuel Michael, Olugbemi Tope Olaniyan, Ajayi Kolawole Temidayo, Saher Islam, Arowora Kayode Adebisi, and Daniel Ingo Hefft PART III High-Throughput Sequencing Technology Applications for Food Safety and Quality Chapter 14 Current Trends in the Detection of Foodborne Pathogens and Maintenance of Microbial Food Safety and Quality Based on Ribosomal RNA Approaches Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Ayodele Eugene Ayeni, Olugbemi Tope Olaniyan, Muhammad Akram, Benjamin Ewa Ubi, Saher Islam, Umme Laila, Mehvish Ajaz, Wadzani Dauda Palnam, Devarajan Thangadurai, Olugbenga Samuel Michael, Juliana Bunmi Adetunji, Fahad Said Khan, and Daniel Ingo Hefft Chapter 15 Application of WGS Technologies in Disease Diagnostics, Surveillance, Transmission, and Outbreak Investigation in the Food Sector Nayana Aluparambil Radhakrishnan, Sreejith Sreekumaran, Akshaya Chekkara Thandayan Santhosh, Sunil Pareek, and Radhakrishnan Edayileveettil Krishnankutty Chapter 16 High-Throughput Sequencing for Detection of Foodborne Pathogens in Food Safety Mahesh Pattabhiramaiah and Shanthala Mallikarjunaiah Chapter 17 Examining Microbial Ecology of Food Using NGS Techniques Nayana Aluparambil Radhakrishnan, Amisha Mathew, Sunil Pareek, and Radhakrishnan Edayileveettil Krishnankutty Chapter 18 Application of Next-Generation Sequencing Techniques in Food-Related Microbiome Studies Ramachandran Chelliah, Eric Banan-Mwine Daliri, Fazle Elahi, Imran Khan, Shuai Wei, Su-Jung Yeon, Kandasamy Saravanakumar, Inamul Hasan Madar, Sumaira Miskeen, Ghazala Sultan, Marie Arockianathan, Shanmugarathinam Alagarsamy, Thirumalai Vasan, Myeong-Hyeon Wang, Usha Antony, Devarajan Thangadurai, and Deog Hwan Oh Index