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Free Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain H44/76 ▿ J. R. Piet 1 , 2 , 3 , § , R. A. G. Huis in 't Veld 1 , 3 , § , B. D. C. van Schaik 4 , A. H. C. van Kampen 4 , 5 , F. Baas 6 , D. van de Beek 2 , 3 , Y. Pannekoek 1 , 3 and A. van der Ende 1 , 3 , 7 , * 1 Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4 Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 5 Biosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands 6 Department of Genome Analysis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 7 Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands ABSTRACT Neisseria meningitidis is an obligate human pathogen. While it is a frequent commensal of the upper respiratory tract, in some individuals the bacterium spreads to the bloodstream, causing meningitis and/or sepsis, which are serious conditions with high morbidity and mortality. Here we report the availability of the genome sequence of the widely used serogroup B laboratory strain H44/76.