Although it was difficult to relate results from separate Pro-Seqs to each other, it was desired to have a simple final detection decision be made in pathogen determination Task(III). The first task was specifically implemented so that information about what a ProSeq was intended to detect was not considered and the second task only minimal consideration of this was taken into account. This allowed these initial tasks to be capable of recognizing not only just positive and negative identifications of target pathogens but also cases that were indeterminate. In the final task, the algorithm considered whether the identified organisms belonged to the list of organisms the ProSeqs were designed to detect. The task would group organisms from ProSeq grouping Task(II) together that belonged to or were child classes of the taxonomic class of a target organism. The taxonomic class reported was the common taxonomic group of all the organisms. When all the ProSeqs for a pathogen hybridized well, a fine level discrimination was reported. But if one or more ProSeqs hybridized less well, the reported positive target pathogen was only identified at the level of the less detailed level. This is conservative because methods have not yet been developed to clearly discriminate mixtures of very closely related organisms causing different ProSeqs to hybridize from variable hybridization of a single organism on several ProSeqs. The results of all When there was a single SubSeq or one scored much better than the other, the ProSeq inherited the properties of that SubSeq. Detailed SubSeqs requirement is described in Supplementary Data. three tasks were reported and a more experienced user can view ProSeq grouping Task(II) results to clarify some cases. Note that organisms identified in ProSeq grouping Task(II) that only belonged to target pathogens were reported as positives. Clear negative ProSeqs were not mentioned in the output. ProSeqs that were indeterminate or that detected close genetic organisms were never reported as positives. These organisms were instead reported as being detected.